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…
By Alexander Stone When Charlotte Emma Aitchison walked down the aisle at Hackney Town Hall on Saturday 19 July 2025, she was wearing something most…
By Maria Bregman I remember my first trip to Island. I was nineteen, on a layover, and my impression of the place was formed in…
By Alexander Stone On the weekend of 12 July 2025, a visitor at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France detached a banana from a white…
By Alexander Stone With a face that can look like a saint or a gargoyle, Willem Dafoe has built a career on playing characters no…