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Books

How Audrey Niffenegger ended up writing a ballet

By Hayley Campbell - 23 Apr 2013

The author of Time Traveller's Wife speaks to Hayley...
Judges for the 15th Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction announced

By New statesman - 23 Apr 2013

Lord Martin Rees to chair the Prize.
Audrey Niffenegger's Raven Girl: the return of the illustrated book?

By Alex Hern - 23 Apr 2013

Alex Hern finds that sometimes it's better to let someone else...
What can we learn from Roald Dahl's The Witches?

By Jemma Crew - 18 Apr 2013

Thirty years on from the publication of Roald Dahl's The...
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists - who are they?

By Philip Maughan - 16 Apr 2013

Penguin-style biographies for the twenty listed writers with...
The Hardy Boys of our generation?

By Alex Hern - 14 Apr 2013

Reviewed: Bad Machinery, by John Allison.

Music and performance

Soul deep: Liam Hayes and Plush

By Yo Zushi - 19 Apr 2013

The musician talks to Yo Zushi about writing songs for Roman...
Where are all the right-wing stand-ups?

By Stewart Lee - 16 Apr 2013

Yes, Jimmy Carr avoided tax and the BNP loves Al Murray’s Pub...
Justin Bieber is a glorified Furby. Why do we expect him to have views on the Holocaust?

By Eleanor Margolis - 16 Apr 2013

We need much more of a Henry VIII-style attitude to celebrities...
Sir Colin Davis: a conductor without compare

By Caroline Crampton - 15 Apr 2013

The London Symphony Orchestra's longest-serving conductor has...
A cross-cultural masterpiece

By Sarah Howell - 12 Apr 2013

Reviewed: Sutra.
Reviewed: Peter and Alice at the Noel Coward Theatre

By Caroline Crampton - 09 Apr 2013

Child’s play.

Art and design

Peter Kennard: From Maggie Regina to Blue Murder

By Philip Maughan - 17 Apr 2013

After Thatcher, political artists need to look harder.
The Shed

By Sarah Howell - 05 Apr 2013

The National Theatre unveils its new temporary theatre space,...
Reviewed: The Maybe by Tilda Swinton

By Sarah Howell - 03 Apr 2013

A fabulous send-up of our obsession with celebrity
Inside the outside: Souzou - Outsider Art from Japan

By Charlotte Simmonds - 30 Mar 2013

Charlotte Simmonds visits the Wellcome's new show, whose artists...
Reviewed: Archivo Bolaño at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

By Ollie Brock - 27 Mar 2013

Roberto and the detectives.
Studio Sittings: Photographing Royal Academicians

By Charlotte Simmonds - 25 Mar 2013

A new show at the Leighton House Museum.

Ideas

Like B*Witched and the SDP, I am far greater than the sum of my parts

By Susan Calman - 19 Apr 2013

Playing Top Trumps inside your own head.
Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: "Superb" and "Fabulous"

By Edmund Wilson - 18 Apr 2013

The American man of letters teaches you how to use words.
The simple courage of decision: a leftist tribute to Thatcher

By Slavoj Zizek - 17 Apr 2013

What we need today is a Thatcher of the left: a leader who would...
The paradox of fairness

By Jenny Diski - 09 Apr 2013

Is the world a better place if the vicious suffer for their...
The Great Train Robbery: Fun-loving criminals

By Duncan Campbell - 09 Apr 2013

The 50th anniversary this August of the Great Train Robbery and...
Edmund Wilson's Words of Ill-Omen: Religionist

By Edmund Wilson - 02 Apr 2013

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and...

Film

When punk rock ruled over Ulster

By Philip Maughan - 23 Apr 2013

Reviewed: Good Vibrations.
I go to the Iron Man films, like everyone else, for Robert Downey Jr

By Ryan Gilbey - 23 Apr 2013

Reviewed: Iron Man 3.
Two hotheads in a room

By Ryan Gilbey - 19 Apr 2013

Bernardo Bertolucci returns after eight years with the...
Soul deep: Liam Hayes and Plush

By Yo Zushi - 19 Apr 2013

The musician talks to Yo Zushi about writing songs for Roman...
Reviewed: The Place Beyond the Pines

By Ryan Gilbey - 10 Apr 2013

A good gander at Gosling.
Music to my eyes

By Ryan Gilbey - 10 Apr 2013

The sweet sound of Christopher Walken in the otherwise terrible "...

Blogs

When punk rock ruled over Ulster

By Philip Maughan - 23 Apr 2013

Reviewed: Good Vibrations.
Reviews Round-up

By New Statesman - 23 Apr 2013

The critics' verdicts on John le Carré, Alister McGrath and...
How Audrey Niffenegger ended up writing a ballet

By Hayley Campbell - 23 Apr 2013

The author of Time Traveller's Wife speaks to Hayley...
Judges for the 15th Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction announced

By New statesman - 23 Apr 2013

Lord Martin Rees to chair the Prize.
Audrey Niffenegger's Raven Girl: the return of the illustrated book?

By Alex Hern - 23 Apr 2013

Alex Hern finds that sometimes it's better to let someone else...
Broadchurch recedes into the gloom, but ITV's star shines bright

By Caroline Crampton - 23 Apr 2013

The channel's handling of Chris Chibnall's brilliant whodunnit...

Television and radio

Broadchurch recedes into the gloom, but ITV's star shines bright

By Caroline Crampton - 23 Apr 2013

The channel's handling of Chris Chibnall's brilliant whodunnit...
Mad Men: Season 6, Episode 3

By Alice Gribbin - 19 Apr 2013

Warring speeches and mass complicity.
Friends is gone for good. Could we BE any sadder?

By Bim Adewunmi - 18 Apr 2013

The creator of Friends, that cultural juggernaut we all...
On a cold night in Rotterdam, the familiarity of Dutch "Take Me Out" is comforting

By Bim Adewunmi - 12 Apr 2013

Television might be considered "low" culture by some, but the...
Mad Men: Season 6, Episodes 1 and 2

By Alice Gribbin - 11 Apr 2013

It's back! Feisty wives, the Don of old and lots of dodgy facial...
Reviewed: Our Lady of Paris on Radio 3

By Antonia Quirke - 09 Apr 2013

Beale's about.

Food and drink

Know your Bastardo from your blistering barnacles

By Nina Caplan - 27 Mar 2013

Wine is not simple; its pleasures are as various as some of its...
Isn’t it Byronic?

By Will Self - 26 Mar 2013

An afternoon of overpriced burgers among the iPeople is not half...
It doesn’t Costa lot to taste this mediocre – and luckily you can find one on every British street

By Will Self - 21 Mar 2013

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.
Squeezed Middle: Getting caffeinated for cash

By Alice O'Keeffe - 21 Mar 2013

Entering “babyccino” denial.
Some corking alternatives to the Irish stew’n’mash

By Felicity Cloake - 20 Mar 2013

Some traditions are just too sacred to mess with, though.
The value of spending more time in the buff

By Nina Caplan - 07 Mar 2013

Don't be afraid of the wine experts.

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