Sunday 30th November 2025

Culture

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

The ornate, Latinate vocabulary. The debates peppered with witticisms. The patrician air, the untraceable accent, the playful glint in his eyes.  William F. Buckley was arguably the most influential American...
Books Gavriella Epstein-Lightman -

‘Everything is constantly emotion’: An interview with the cast and crew of ‘Doctor Faustus’ 

Seabass Theatre has carved out a niche for itself producing original takes on canonical...
Culture Lara Machado -

Between performance and reality: ‘To What End?’ reviewed

To What End is a new meta-theatrical, absurdist play written by Billy Skiggs and...
Culture Beth Riding -

The day she died

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The Source Nat Conboy -
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Review: Frank

Michael Fassbender's masterful performance ultimately saves this self-indulgent and incoherent movie

The Magnificence of Miyazaki

Ollie Johnson praises the genius of the master of Japanese animation

Top 3… Theories of the Soul

Luke Barratt outlines three intriguing historical perspectives

Milestones: Deals with the Devil

Luke Barratt explores the cultural motif of selling one's soul - don't try this at home!

Identity: A question of mind, body or soul?

Emma Simpson considers what our obsession with the physical has to do with our inner lives

Preview: Surprise

Naomi Polonsky is completely absorbed by this new piece of writing

Review: Matisse the Cut-Outs

Enyuan Khong takes a tour of the Tate Modern’s new exhibition of the modernist master’s cut-outs

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

Luke Barratt considers the overwhelmingly visual nature of our cultural consumption

Top 3… Visuals

Emma Simpson examines three unusual visual perspectives

Milestones: Bill Viola

Naomi Polonsky considers the influence of visual artist Bill Viola

Where are they now: The Cheeky Girls

They’re the 00s favourite Romanian red-heads that left Louis Walsh speechless.

Review: Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke

It's the 42nd release by the country icon, but Dolly has failed to deliver.

Review: Kishi Bashi – Lighght

Adam Piascik reviews the celestial new album by violinist Kishi Bashi

Review: Amen Dunes – Love

The fourth offering from this Philadelphia based musician is reviewed by Kevin Harris

Live Review: Gang of One

Claire Poynton-Smith checked out one-man-band Gang of One at the Cape of Good Hope

Review: Pompeii

Fergus Morgan finds this 'historical' disaster epic to be shallow, undeveloped and just plain boring

Review: Blue Ruin

Matthew Main finds Saulnier's revenge thriller to be poignant and understated

All the world’s a screen

Marcus Balmer looks at how film has reinterpreted Shakespeare

Review: Tracks

A long and mesmerising push through the lonely, breath-taking spaces of Australia

Drenge: Isolation and Frustration

Rushabh Haria talks to Rory Loveless from Drenge about their recent success
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