Venice Film Festival 2024 Monday 09th Sep 2024 Venice Film Festival 2024 Rich pickings RITA DI SANTO selects seven of the best films from this year’s line-up to watch for in cinemas
Books Monday 09th Sep 2024 Books The language of the working class soldier MARTIN HALL steps gingerly through a fragmentary novel about WWI by one of France’s greatest prose stylists, and most notorious fascist sympathisers
Album reviews Monday 09th Sep 2024 Album reviews Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: September 9, 2024 New releases from David Grubb, Bright Eyes and Trygve Seim, Frode Haltli
Short Fiction Friday 06th Sep 2024 Short Fiction Call-out for Short Stories ANDY HEDGECOCK invites readers to contribute short fiction to our arts pages, offers some guidance and picks a few favourites
Attila the Stockbroker Diary Friday 06th Sep 2024 Attila the Stockbroker Diary Attila the Stockbroker Diary: September 6, 2024 The Star’s itinerant troubadour pauses to take stock of the rise of the far-right in former East Germany
Music review Friday 06th Sep 2024 Music review Blown away CHRIS SEARLE is transported by a combative fusion of US and UK instrumentalists and landmark evening of jazz
Books Friday 06th Sep 2024 Books Practical advice for teachers JOHN GREEN recommends a useful how-to guide for teaching children with special needs, aimed at those working in education
Books Friday 06th Sep 2024 Books Up your expectations! FIONA O’CONNOR examines a new book by Labour’s media-savvy MP and new Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls
Books Thursday 05th Sep 2024 Books ‘Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice’ - Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, 1670 GORDON PARSONS recommends a fine introduction to a philosopher who, like Marx, worked to help society to reject illusion and understand the realities of the human condition
Books Thursday 05th Sep 2024 Books How the wealth of the few is maintained WILL PODMORE is intrigued by an analysis of capital that emphasises the deadening impact of financialisation on the US and UK economies