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Crime fiction
Crime fiction
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: November 19, 2024
Daring Scottish gothic, a murderer in their midst, the best spy story of the year and a classic list of clues
Theatre review
Theatre review
The end of dialogue
SIMON PARSONS applauds an assured and enjoyable adaptation of Ali Smith’s meditative and pessimistic novel about Brexit Britain
Music review
Music review
Continue the research
SIMON DUFF is transported by the sweetly seductive tones of experimental guitarist Pat Metheny
Theatre review
Theatre review
Scouse Christmas cracker
SYLVIA HIKINS rejoices at the confounding of evil property developers in a subversive re-telling of the fairytale
Theatre review
Theatre review
Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Nugent
GORDON PARSONS is filled with unease by the RSC’s offering of a brutal fairytale for Christmas
Album reviews
Album reviews
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: November 18, 2024
New releases from Jennifer Castle, Primal Scream and Keith Jarrett
Book Review
Book Review
The many and the singularity
JOHN HAWKINS marvels at the blithe dismissal of people as a passive mass in a new work that extols the coming merger of human intelligence with AI
Book Review
Book Review
Empire is without virtue
RON JACOBS recommends an exhaustive demonstration that colonialism is insidious, pervasive, positive and negative
Book Review
Book Review
Here’s looking at you, kid
DEBRA BENITA SHAW applauds the Booker prize winner: a short but powerful story urging us to save the planet
Book Review
Book Review
In search of the man who defined Brazil musically
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a book that explores imaginatively the disappearance of Francisco Tenorio Cerqueira, the famed precursor of Brazil’s contemporary popular music
