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Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Think Cinderella, but in Mexico, in the 1920’s. And instead of a handsome prince, there’s…

Papi Chulo Review

John Butler’s comedy-drama begins with TV weatherman Sean, played by the devilishly handsome Matt Bomer,…

Book Review: Looker by Laura Sims

Laura Sims’ dark domestic debut is a book about what happens when fascination veers dangerously…

Nick Setchfield: Scare Tissue – Four Frights That Left Their Mark On Me

MIDWINTER You don’t expect to find existential dread in the pages of Radio Times –…

Theatre Review: The Importance of Being… Earnest? at Pleasance Theatre London

With the 125th anniversary of The Importance of Being Earnest approaching, the farcical comedy is certainly…

Five Feet Apart DVD Review

Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) are two seventeen-year-olds with life threatening Cystic…

ZZ Top rock Wembley

That Little Ol’ Band from Texas – or ZZ Top as they’re more commonly known…

Book Review: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

There’s a lot going on in Kate Atkinson’s latest literary crime novel, Big Sky. Women…

Our Time Review

Juan (Carlos Reygadas) and Esther (Natalia López) own a bull ranch in the Mexican countryside,…

Book Review: Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland

We never learn her name. When we meet the heroine of Fake Like Me, she…

Tom Chatfield on writing a novel that wrestles his fascinations into fictional form

I studied and then taught English literature at Oxford, moving from my undergraduate degree through…

The Rolling Stones – Bridges to Bremen Review

Latter-day live albums are often a painful affair, with scant muscle to cover the dignity…