Culture
Books you can’t sink your teeth into: A brief look into unsolvable manuscripts
If there’s one thing that most people appreciate, it’s a good mystery with a clever solution. It is no accident that Agatha Christie is listed as the Guinness World...
Review: Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective
Will Heaven Fall on Us? A Béla Tarr Retrospective, which aired in cinemas this...
Has the romantic comedy lost its charm?
The romantic comedy genre is often criticised for its overreliance on tropes. The romcom...
Palimpsest
This is a secular city, built on holy bones.
We’re on the edge of another...
2024 was for the girls: The rapid success of female artists
The last nine months of pop can perhaps be summed up in one word:...
Airbrushing our art and architecture
Emmanuelle Soffe on the damaging effects of laser cleaning ancient buildings
Electronic vs. Paper – A Real Page Turner
Ben Ray on the great debate
Was Cumberbatch right?
Mark Barclay asks why nobody questioned Benedict's latest outburst
Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry
Catherine Kelly sinks her teeth into Beach House's Depression Cherry
Live Review: Mac Demarco at the Camden Roundhouse
Fintan Calpin recounts an evening of swaying, smoking and musical intoxication
Writers on film
Ben Cooke discusses why so many films about writers seem silly
The Frank is for Turning…sort of.
Zoe Hare reviews Frank Turner's latest album: 'Positive songs for Negative People'
Into the ring: boxing and social mobility in cinema
Olivia Sung asks if boxing is cinema's greatest arena for exploring social mobility
The Proms: ‘Wouldn’t you simply die without Mahler?’
An impressed Sean Dunn sees Ludwig's finale for a fiver
Video and Theatre
Mark Barclay explores the possibility of a symbiosis of video and theatre - or an invasion of one by the other
Tramlines 2015: On the unbeat‘n’tracks
From headliners to sideliners - a review of Sheffield's 7th Urban Festival run
Drake’s ghostwriter: does it really matter?
Doubt over the authorship of Drake's lyrics are a small price to pay for more material from the artist, writes Tom Barrie
Review: Tame Impala – Currents
Catherine Kelly dives into Tame Impala's Currents.
Review: Man and Superman
Comedy and philosophy at the National Theatre
