Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago by Douglas Cowie
Douglas Cowie’s most recent book, Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago, is a fictionalised account of the near-two-decades-long relationship between Simone de…
No’s Knife at The Old Vic
‘… no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one…
Picasso Sculptures at Musée National Picasso-Paris
Picasso Sculpture opened to great acclaim last September at New York’s Museum of Modern Art before moving to the Musée…
William Eggleston: Portraits
William Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant…
Wife by Tiphanie Yanique
Intimacy and infidelity, warmth and vacuousness, possessed and free. These are all the paradoxes that are found, lost, and found…
Dead Women Poets Society
‘#JoinTheSeance!’ is Helen Bowell’s excited exhortation to a low-lit room of poetry enthusiasts, surrounded by electric candles in the basement of…
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
In their most cliched form, attempts to describe the experience of bereavement tend to settle into a series of unanswerable…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
Yerma at the Young Vic
Australian theatre’s “enfant terrible,” Simon Stone, rewrites and directs Lorca’s Yerma through a glass darkly. Opening night of Yerma at…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
New Voices from the Tower Hamlets Schools
SLAMbassadors Showcase, 14th July 2016 Close your eyes, and try to remember the last time a thirteen-year-old implored you to…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection – Shortlist
This year’s contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of…
Faith Healer at Donmar Warehouse
Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece”…
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
No Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners –…
Through by David Herd
David Herd begins his new collection Through with the line: ——It is possible to be precise. The wording– “it is…
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The latest novelistic offering in Hogarth Shakespeare’s project to refashion the bard’s tales into contemporary retellings, Vinegar Girl compellingly revitalises…
The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios
Alongside a fruitful film career, it may come as a surprise that Jesse Eisenberg has time to publish a book…
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s…
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and…
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The outer layer of your skin, the epidermis, replaces itself every 35 days. Become a vegetarian, better yet a vegan,…
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
What do we think of when we think of myths? For children, myths are something unquestionable and magical. They present…
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