The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Cherry Jones returns to the role of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany. This London…
Adventures in Moominland at Southbank Centre
“What do you know of the Moomins: the books, the television series, or maybe you just recognize the characters?” That…
The Dreary Steeples Emerging Once Again
Churchill and Ireland, Paul Bew, Oxford University Press, 2016, £16.99, (hardback) Gladstone famously declared that he had a…
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…
Journeying Souls
The Verandah Poems, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Selected Poems, Michael Symmons Roberts, Cape 2016, £14…
Indians of South Africa
Into That Heaven of Freedom, Mohamed Keshavjee, Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2015, 312pp, £35 (hardback) Indians were in Africa long…
The Threepenny Opera
If you put on a production of Romeo and Juliet in Verona, how much does anyone care that the action…
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…
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”…
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…
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s life has been marked by a sense of ‘suspension’. Born to Bengali immigrants but brought up in America,…
Filthy with Erotic Mystery
Jonathan Bate, Ted Hughes, The Unauthorised Life, William Collins, 2015, 672pp, £25 (hardback) First, a few confessional words: I was…
Painterly Figuration
Eileen Hogan, Browse & Darby, London, 9 September – 2 October 2015 Julian Perry, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent,…
Infinite Archive
Disinformation, Frances Leviston, Picador, 2015, 80pp, £9.98 (paperback) Kim Kardashian’s Marriage, Sam Riviere, Faber, 2015, 112pp, £10.99 (paperback) These two…
Neat Shape?
Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief lives of the monarchs since 1066, Andrew Gimson, Square Peg, 2015, 256pp, £10.99 (hardback) Penguin…
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Lauded as a subversive masterpiece, pegged as a favourite to win The Man Booker Prize and one of the best-selling…
Happiness by Jack Underwood
Happiness by Jack Underwood ‘Sometimes your sadness is a yacht’ is the title of the fourth poem in Jack Underwood’s…
The Lobster
The Lobster If you were to be turned into an animal what animal would you choose? This question remains at…
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks In Where My Heart Used to Beat, we witness the transformation…
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
It is not practiced perfection that hits the right note in Ian McEwan’s most recent novel but the gloriously amateur, both…
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
The First Bad Man by Miranda July Cheryl Glickman — isolated, alone and with no true friends to speak of…
Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision
Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision Virginia Woolf viewed greatness as a “positive possession”. In her mind greatness was…
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