31.03.2023
600 pages all at once: What readers are saying about Mieko Kawakami’s new novel
Initial reviews of “Sisters in Yellow” say the hefty book is a fast read that leaves an almost painful impression.
31.03.2023
11 of the best films to watch in April
Including the Super Mario Bros Movie, Renfield and Evil Dead Rise
31.03.2023
Black Country, New Road ramps up the theatrics
Riding high on its triumphant Fuji Rock debut last summer, the British art-rock band returns to the country for its first Japan tour.
30.03.2023
‘Brats, Be Ambitious!’: Childhood friendships get dark
Set in the late 1980s, Shin Adachi's melodramatic coming-of-age film about a quartet of scrappy boys draws inspiration from Rob Reiner's 1986 classic “Stand By ...
30.03.2023
‘Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle’ is an experimental slog
Gakuryu Ishii's rambling treatise on art and self-actualization spends much more time talking about the magic of movies than actually invoking it.
30.03.2023
The Cold War battle over Tetris
Looking into the remarkable origin story of the classic puzzle game
30.03.2023
Is the superhero film dead?
How grim headlines and grim box office could spell the end of the line
30.03.2023
Looking back on 60 years of Beatlemania
On March 22, 1963, the Beatles released their first album "Please Please Me", rocketing the foursome to international fame. Six decades on, we look at how Beatlemania transformed Liverpool, the northe...
30.03.2023
‘I chose to survive’: Jeremy Renner gives first interview since snowplough accident
Avengers star was left in a critical condition after his snowplough crushed him, but says ‘I’d do it again’ to save his nephewJeremy Renner is set to give his first interview since he was critically i...
30.03.2023
‘I see this as a global fascist moment’: author Jeff Sharlet on interviewing far-right Americans
Sharlet, who spent a dozen years talking to ordinary people about their predilection for violence, has long sounded the alarmJeff Sharlet and I meet outside the Titanic museum in sleepy Springfield, M...
30.03.2023
Going dotty: Photo London x Hahnemühle student award – in pictures
From subversive hand gestures to a study of no-parking signs, the images on this year’s shortlist show young photographers dealing with grief, longing and identity Continue reading...
30.03.2023
Deals, drama and danger: the incredible true story behind Tetris
A new film shows how the addictive game found its way out of the Soviet Union and into the hands of millionsWhen he looks back on it now – gambling his house, battling Robert Maxwell, turning up in th...
30.03.2023
‘The public stigmatizes them’: what it’s like being a teacher in America
A new book focuses on three teachers working in the US and the many difficulties they face in an increasingly untenable systemFor every apple that lands on a teacher’s desk, there’s a dumpster’s worth...
30.03.2023
Keith Reid, lyricist for Procol Harum, dies aged 76
Songwriter behind psychedelic 1960s masterpiece A Whiter Shade of Pale had been receiving cancer treatment for two yearsKeith Reid, the lyricist for Procol Harum whose poetic vision on Whiter Shade of...
30.03.2023
Unstable review – this Rob Lowe nepo-sitcom is staggeringly joke-free
The actor stars alongside his son (playing his son) in a nauseatingly schmaltzy, second-tier comedy. It’s utterly unfunny, but at least its lead is as charming as everThat the name of the eccentric bi...
30.03.2023
Banksy artwork Brace Yourself! sells for over $2m at auction in US
Painting created in 2010 for band who agreed to change their name fetches more than three times its estimateThe Banksy artwork Brace Yourself! has sold for $2,032,000 (£1.6m), more than three times it...
30.03.2023
Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren – an outstanding debut
The passing of youth is vividly drawn in this epic tale of a Swedish publisher whose wife mysteriously goes missingMartin Berg is a Swedish publisher living in the aftermath of tragedy. More than a de...
30.03.2023
Eddie Chacon: Sundown review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
(Stones Throw)The 59-year-old singer of Charles & Eddie fame is back with a second album of tightly written melodies and abstract tracks that draw you in to a rich, heady worldIt was hard not to n...