Books & arts
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers
Books & arts
5 September 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula
Books & arts
8 December 2011
If it reminded us of nothing else, the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth underlined his extraordinary energy
Books & arts
12 May 2011
Deported after the first world war, Paul Dubotzki had created a remarkable record of life as an internee, writes Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
24 February 2011
Terry Lane on the career and life of one of America’s great photographers, Berenice Abbott
Books & arts
19 January 2011
Mumbai is a big city getting bigger, writes Jim Masselos, but amid the crowds the quest for freedom goes on
Books & arts
26 October 2010
Perhaps Ferran Adrià – the chef who redefined the restaurant dinner as a series of culinary tweets, usually thirty or more of them in a sitting – really is the…
Books & arts
20 October 2010
CINEMA | Taika Waititi’s Boy draws on a decades-old tradition of Maori political and cultural activism, writes Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
19 October 2010
Glenn Nicholls reviews the German-language edition of Herta Müller’s latest novel, Everything I Possess I Carry with Me
Books & arts
6 October 2010
Terry Lane reads a few new novels, and a pile of old ones, on his brand new Kindle, and discovers that it’s not always the same experience
Books & arts
7 July 2010
“If it stays humble and moves with the swiftness of a fox, it will be difficult to catch.” Jock Given reviews Ken Auletta’s Googled
Books & arts
4 December 2009
BOOKS | Interest in making the pilgrimage might be tapering off, but that gives us an opportunity to understand Kokoda in more complex ways, writes Hank Nelson
From the archive
15 September 2009
What makes Americans so prone to marrying, and remarrying?