Sunday 1st June 2025

Culture

A Pelican Crossing Somewhere on Green Dragon Lane

"The passage of time is a bloodthirsty hound."

Doctor Zhivago: The banned book the CIA smuggled across the Iron Curtain

“May it make its way around the world. You are hereby invited to watch...

Sally Rooney, a Flaubert for today?

Like millions of other people in recent years, I have fallen victim to the...

Twenty-seven years on from The Satanic Verses: Can works of fiction be political?

On the 16th May, the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie following a literary...

Preview: Orphans

The Experimental Theatre Club promises a tense exploration of societal divide

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 8

This week to end our series Cathy Go writes about mornings, a cruel time all of us must eventually face — even in the vac

Review: Horseplay

Matt Roberts has a bizarre evening with the Revue at the Pilch

Review: Sketchy History

Matt Roberts really wanted to like this new sketch show from 'Three Men in a Boot'

Review: Rape of Lucretia

Caitlin Law is struck by an eery night at St Peter's Chapel

Spotlight: Five faint at Kane’s ‘Cleansed’

Matt Roberts reflects on dramatic violence and the hype of a cause célèbre

Review: Maud

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is touched by this one man performance

Preview: Attempts On Her Life

Christian Bell previews BT Studio's latest production Attempts On Her Life

An art lover’s FIELD day

Miriam Gordis finds poetry in art at Anne Hardy’s exhibition

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 7

This week Alex Shaw writes about shaky foundations

Embracing the Wilderness

Ben Ray discusses nature with journalist Rob Cowen

Fairytales for a new age

Miriam Gordis interviews Desmond Elliott Prize winner, Ali Shaw

Review: Marriage of Kim K

Rose Taylor reflects on a remarkable new show at the O'Reilly

Rewind: William Carlos Williams

Tom Barrie reflects on the rebellious brevity of William Carlos Williams’ poetry

Culture Corner: David Mitchell & Cloud Atlas

Samantha Phey muses on Cloud Atlas’ exploration of human interconnectedness

Postcards: the last vestige of sincerity

Simran Uppal would quite like someone to pidge him a Valentine, but only if it’s physical

Looking through the window

Natasha Burton argues that postcards are more than just cultural snapshots

Minor Dundee?

Altair Brandon-Salmon looks back at Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965)

Review: Hail, Caesar!

Jem Bartholomew feels the latest Coen Brothers offering was one big inside joke

Review: Living Hour debut album

The band's self-named album reminds Sophie Jordan of past summers

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