Izzy Smith

Articles By Izzy Smith

Mieko Kawakami: All the Lovers in the Night review - the raw relatability of loneliness Saturday, 25 June 2022 Read more...	Lucie Elven: The Weak Spot review - a cryptic modern fable Tuesday, 23 November 2021 Read more...
10 Questions for novelist Mieko Kawakami Tuesday, 27 July 2021 Read more...

Last year’s relatively slimline East Neuk Festival felt like a feast in time of plague. This July everything was back to full strength in numerous...

A sequel is always a hard thing to write, especially if the book that precedes it is a bestseller, adapted for television and read by more than a...

The third album from Stockholm rowdies Viagra Boys doesn’t muck about with what they do, but it’s more persistently punkin’ than their last. There...

At the beginning of this film, Mick Jagger says: “What most...

Reviewing the Grange Festival production of Tamerlano the other day, I noted the difficulty...

Where should Leila live — Ilford or Kent? It doesn’t sound like an earth-shattering decision for a 15-year-old to make, but the stakes...

The last minute of Found Light’s third track “Seaside Haiku” is defined by the repetition of a single phrase: “give but don’t give too...

Oghneya opens with the extraordinary “Matar Al Sabah.” Jazzy, with an overt Brazilian feel it gently swings and swoons....

Pinocchio is one of our most irreverent metamorphosis stories, and in this visually ingenious blend of...

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