By Maria Bregman, writer, film and art critic In the hallowed halls of British television drama, the crime procedural is a venerable institution, as established…
By Maria Bregman, writer and art critic In the glittering, chaotic theatre of 1920s Paris, a new kind of woman was taking centre stage. These…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic In the hallowed edit suites and bustling production offices of the United Kingdom’s screen sector, a new collaborator…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic Henry Valentine Miller, a name that reverberates with the clang of controversy and the whisper of literary liberation,…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic F. Scott Fitzgerald, a name forever entwined with the glittering, doomed excess of the Jazz Age, remains one…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The genesis of Robert Louis Stevenson’s chilling novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is as…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic The audacity of attempting to encapsulate Eduard Limonov – poet, provocateur, pugilist, politician – within the confines of…
By Maria Bregman, writer and art-critic There’s a particular type of silence that descends upon a gallery when a masterpiece is harmed. It’s a sudden,…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The spectre of the twentieth century lingers, etched not just in historical records but in the very marrow…
By Maria Bregman, writer and film critic The landscape of British independent cinema is a vibrant, often tempestuous, terrain. It thrives on raw talent, audacious…