By Lana Sterling William Morris, a central figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, sought to revive traditional craftsmanship and bring beauty into everyday life,…
Sergei Prokofiev left Russia in 1918, six months after the Bolshevik Revolution. He was twenty-seven, already established as one of the most brilliant young composers…
By Lana Sterling Sam Wanamaker’s relentless, decades-long campaign to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s Bankside defied skepticism, bringing a vital piece of theatrical history back…
By Lana Sterling Barbara Hepworth transformed British sculpture by piercing solid forms and letting Cornish light flood through them. Settling in St Ives in 1939,…
While the Fringe fills the Royal Mile with flyers, the Edinburgh International Festival runs alongside it from 7 to 30 August doing something almost opposite.…
Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now adapts a short story by Daphne du Maurier into something far more fractured and emotionally destabilising than its…
By Lana Sterling There is a particular dread reserved for things that happen in enclosed spaces at altitude. It is not the claustrophobia of the…
By Lana Sterling On 1 June 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles. A hundred years later, the world she left behind at…
By Lana Sterling For twenty years, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair existed as cinema’s most tantalising ghost. Quentin Tarantino screened it at Cannes in…
By Lana Sterling There is a particular cruelty to the wellness industry: it targets people who are already broken, sells them the promise of wholeness,…