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Cinema has a deep distrust of the devout. Even though many movie types are tied up in all sorts of personal spiritual pursuits, organised…

Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the programme for the…

The bite of winter, barely registering these past months in London, snapped at my cheeks on arriving at Leeds Railway Station. It was a…

We’ve heard of dad rock, but how about dad techno? This Spanish movie, directed by the French-born Oliver Laxe, immerses us in one of…

Rose Wylie’s paintings are a blast of fresh air. Direct, anarchic, exuberant and determinedly daft, they make a mockery of the self-…

Backstories of famous writers are fascinating: where did they come from? What were their inspirations? What obstacles did they overcome?…

Last week I saw Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, a play which behind its pyrotechnic wit affirms that sorrow and calamity can strike chaotically at…

“I don’t remember yesterday, but I remember when I was eight years old.” The opening lyrics of “Sure & Steady,” Gained / Lost’s second…

Simon Amstell says this show is a departure from his previous ones, which were full of angsty introspection. And true, in I Love It Here he…