Art endows people with the power to take control of their self-expression, to create themselves and identify themselves in a…

The waves come and go, breaking on the shore at their own singular pace. Grains of sand become whole under…

Ben Weatherhill wrote Jellyfish specifically for the actress Sarah Gordy, and after seeing her incredible performance at The National Theatre,…

The building itself is an intricate dance of angles, edges and corners; the colours and lines are a call to…

In two exhibitions by Jenny Holzer and Nan Goldin currently on display at the Tate Modern we are presented by…

Orange World and Other Stories, Karen Russell, Penguin, pp. 288, £14.99 (hardcover) Karen Russell’s third short story collection Orange World…

Born in 1934 in what was then British Guiana (now Guyana), Frank Bowling studied at the Royal College of Art…

Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language, Paul Baker, Reaktion Books, 2019, pp. 320, £15.99 (Hardcover) Polari is a…

Known for the haunting anguish of The Scream, Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch produced less notorious pieces with a…

T. S. Eliot was famously wary about artistic interpretations of his poems. In a letter in 1947 to Dale E.…

Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams Biteback Publishing, £25 In the age of the internet it is…

Bringing iconic films to the main screen, from Clockwork Orange to The Shining, Stanley Kubrick has contributed significantly to 20th…

Vivian, Christina Hesselholdt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019, pp.192, £12.99 (paperback) “What I produce is so good that if I start showing…

Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City, edited by Claire Armitstead, Arcadia Books, 2019, £9.99 It’s Saturday morning…

Salt Slow, Julia Armfield, Pan Macmillan, 2019, pp.208, £12.99 (hardback) This electric, enthralling collection of short stories from Julia Armfield…

A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.112, £8.99 A Few Interiors, Rowland Bagnell, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.64,…

Days in the Caucasus, Banine (translated by  Anne Thompson-Ahmadova), Pushkin Press, 2019, pp. 288 (hardback) Crossing, Pajtim Statovci (translated by…

Lee Krasner’s work was central in the proliferation of abstract expressionism in the United States. A new show at the…

We don’t have to start if you’re not ready.’The epigraph on the first page of Wang Ting-Huo’s award-winning novel invites…

It’s a familiar, yet uncanny feeling we all know; like waking up in a hotel you’re sure you’ve never stayed…

“The failure of the English revolution… is all around us: in the Westminster constitution, in Ireland, and poisoning English attitudes…

For the first time in almost twenty years, Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd returns home to the Royal Opera House in…