By Maria Bregman There is a persistent and dangerously sentimental belief that Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine is a book that makes you happy. It is packaged and…
By Tessa Nolan There is a tedious paradox at the heart of modern culture: the more desperately an artist contorts themselves for our attention, the…
By Sara Bright The West End has always been an ecosystem of calculated sentiment. For every flash of genuine, lightning-in-a-bottle genius, there are a dozen…
The breakfast photograph is dead. Long live breakfast. Let us not mourn the passing of its digital ghost – that poorly lit snapshot of sourdough…
By Sara Bright Jean Marais was a face. Not just any face, but one of the great, heroic faces of 20th-century French cinema – impossibly…