By Sara Bright The name “August” in cinema conjures a particular kind of film – late-summer releases, often ambitious, sometimes unwieldy, carrying the weight of…
By Sara Bright In the grand, often turbulent, theatre of the British royal family, there are the leading players, and then there are the character…
There is a particular kind of garment you may have noticed drifting across city streets and park lawns this summer. It is almost always white,…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The two decades between 1920 and 1940 represent a deep paradox in the European story. It was an…
By Tessa Nolan The face of Kirill Richter is on posters across London, announcing a concert at the Coliseum. It is not the kind of…
By Sara Bright There is a certain kind of object in the world that has transcended its own materiality. It is no longer just a…
By Sara Bright If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, you’ve probably seen it: the hypnotic videos of a head spa treatment. A…
By Tessa Nolan London’s celebrity geography is not random. It clusters along predictable corridors – Mayfair’s clubland, Soho’s late kitchens, Notting Hill’s pastel mews –…
By Maria Bregman To read R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface as a story about plagiarism is like reading The Great Gatsby as a cautionary tale about bad driving. It is a…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The name Stefan Zweig conjures an image of immense literary celebrity in the turbulent 1930s. His work was…