The knife in the eye is the cruellest blow,” Salman Rushdie considers, in this film of his book reckoning with the assault ...

Dance culture is constantly remixing its past, but it seems like we’re in a sudden burst of interesting twists on that. Just ...

If your parents were crazy enough to call you Esmerelda – a name they gleaned from a crossword puzzle – you’d most likely ...

Now or Never is a slice of classic-era songwriter rock, with her husband Paul Muggleton co-producing, and featuring regular collaborators Mike Paxman and Rhino Edwards (and daughter Bailey). It opens ...

Kershaw spent much of the Nineties working with and writing for others. As well as playing with Elton John, he wrote hits including Chesney Hawkes' chart-topper “The One and Only” and material for The ...

Woodrow Wilson's attempts to forge a new international order based on principles of democracy, equal respect for sovereignty ...

"German sounds a thoroughly respectable language, and indeed, I believe is so, " pronounces Wilde's Lady Bracknell. She may, ...

Living the unison curve and its attendant shimmer with which Wagner outlines a religious mystery in the Prelude to Parsifal, ...

In April 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, effectively confiscating privately-held gold from American citizens. This is the ...

Noel Coward’s youthful writing surge produced dozens of plays, the perennially popular Hay Fever, premiered in 1925, among ...

The book’s central character, Dorrigo Evans, duly takes centre-stage here. He’s played in his youth by Jacob Elordi (pictured left, also familiar as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla), a ...

Don't be fooled by New Ross. This quiet Irish country town on the tidal River Barrow with narrow medieval streets, hilly ...