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The Lumineers at the O2: one big celebration

The Lumineers have earned the vast international following that’s represented at the O2 tonight, and…

Grapevine Gathering Festival Review

Whilst the rain might be pouring in the UK, summer is coming to Australia, and…

Book Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

Tehran, 1953, before the coup. Iran is experiencing a brief spell of relative peace, although…

The best non-fiction, poetry and coffee table books for Christmas 2019

FROM POETRY AND POLITICAL SATIRE TO BIOGRAPHIES AND BRAIN TEASING BOOKS, HERE’S OUR PICK OF…

Book Review: Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey

“Take my baby.” From its first line, Samantha M. Bailey’s Woman on the Edge is…

Ophelia Review

It takes an admirable chutzpah to rewrite a play like Hamlet; but sacred cows are…

Permission Review

Afrooz (Baran Kasari) is the captain of Iran’s national women’s futsal (a variant of football)…

Book Review: Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan

At the end of Girls of Paper and Fire, our heroine Lei was fleeing for…

Festival Review: One hell of a weekend at Maho Rasop 2019

It’s mid-November in Bangkok, one of the largest and busiest cities in the world, and…

Book Review: The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

There are books that you eagerly binge in a day and books that you deliberately…

State Like Sleep Review

Calling your film State Like Sleep is a brave move. You may as well call…

Theatre Review: La Clique at the Leicester Square Spiegeltent

A dark and sexy circus returns to town. The lithe young performers of La Clique…