Inevitably, there will be Harry Potters and Hermione Grangers commemorated across the UK– and 100 other countries around the world celebrating all things literature in school. This year sees the 25th anniversary of the fair with book bargains and £1 book tokens being gifted to children to encourage a readingContinue Reading
With Russia accused of war crimes in Ukraine, the streaming platform finds itself increasingly isolated as Western companies abandon the pariah state.Continue Reading
Review at a glance J ust a week ago, an exhibition featuring bomb sites, mass displacement of people and traumatised refugees would have seemed remote from our time. But now, quite a lot of the content and much of the tone of Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65, theContinue Reading
O n April 20, the great, the good and the simply stratospherically wealthy of the international art world will descend on Venice for the city’s 59th art biennale. Chances are, however, that Pavlo Makov, the artist chosen to represent Ukraine at this year’s event, will not be there. Nobody knowsContinue Reading
Review at a glance A petite blonde woman – lips ringed in postbox red lipstick – stands on a table in front of a rapt crowd, telling a story about an uncle who liked crosswords, who taught her to play football in his yard, who died of an incurable cancer.Continue Reading
T he Peaky Blinders are back – and Steven Knight’s tale of Brummie gangster life in the inter-war period looks set to reach a blood-soaked crescendo in the BBC drama’s sixth series, which marks the final chapter for the disturbingly dysfunctional Shelby family. After season five’s dramatic conclusion, the questionContinue Reading
Review at a glance I t’s hard to think of Avril Lavigne as an elder stateswoman of pop-punk when she looks almost exactly the same on the cover of her seventh album, at 37, as she did on her 20 year-old debut album, Let Go. This time, she sounds theContinue Reading
FromSoftware has reinvented Dark Souls in an open world, and the result is a triumph.Continue Reading
Review at a glance H ow can you not love a show that begins with one of its stars downing a shot from a menstrual cup? This cabaret-inspired celebration of queer Caribbean women is fearlessly its own thing, and all the more enjoyable for it. Written and directed by EmilyContinue Reading
Review at a glance T he Surrealists always made dramatic statements. “Our Surrealism will enable us finally to transcend the sordid antinomies of the present… Surrealism – the tightrope of our hope.” This was written in 1943, when the present was sordid indeed. But its author is not one of theContinue Reading
