By Alexander Stone The headlines ripple across the globe with an almost biblical promise: a vaccine against all cancers. It’s a concept that feels like…
By Maria Bregman There is a particular kind of literary reverence reserved for the ‘crisis of faith’ novel. We are invited, with hushed solemnity, to…
By Sara Bright Helen Mirren’s cinematic career spans over five decades, encompassing an eclectic spectrum of characters from Arthurian sorceresses to British monarchs. Born Ilyena…
By Alexander Stone Gwyneth Paltrow has become the face of Astronomer, a New York-based data orchestration company, after the firm found itself at the centre…
By Maria Bregman Not long ago, I watched a celebrated academic, a man whose books had once reshaped his field, struggle to share his screen…
By Alexander Stone The Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival returns for its eighth year on Thursday 8 October, running four days through to Sunday 11…
By Maria Bregman Reading Siân Hughes’s Booker-longlisted debut, Pearl, I was reminded of my great-aunt and the lethal comfort of a good story. The novel has…
By Alexander Stone A great on-screen kiss is a piece of storytelling. It can be a goodbye, a beginning, or the moment an entire story…
By Maria Bregman Åsa Ericsdotter’s novel, Phase 3, is a book for a world that has lost the stomach for such work. It arrives packaged as…
By Alexander Stone Ten years ago, scientists found a planet called Kepler-452b. It’s often called Earth’s twin. It orbits a star like our sun. Its…