Book Review Book Review Erdogan’s neo Sultanate ANGUS REID wrestles with a detailed analysis of the competing religious alliances behind the ascendancy of conservative nationalism in today’s Turkey
Opinion Friday 10th Jan 2025 Opinion Could you live on this? MARGARET HEFFERNAN draws attention to a new report on the conditions of financial precariousness facing visual artists
Short Story Friday 10th Jan 2025 Short Story The Life of Your Dreams by SJ Bradley Anna flees the floods and fires of Earth, but life as a migrant worker on Ganglian-A is grim and exploitative. Her plan of escape is simple and, paradoxically, rocket science
Attila the Stockbroker Diary Friday 10th Jan 2025 Attila the Stockbroker Diary Attila the Stockbroker Diary: January 10, 2025 The bard’s indefatigable knack for rhythm and rhyme tunes into the gloomy zeitgeist and comes out cheerful
Cinema Friday 10th Jan 2025 Cinema Film round-up: January 10, 2025 The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Nickel Boys, Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger, Babygirl, and Maria
Film of the Week: Thursday 09th Jan 2025 Film of the Week: Whose pain? MARIA DUARTE recommends a buddy road-trip comedy that deals with third generation Holocaust trauma
Theatre Review Wednesday 08th Jan 2025 Theatre Review Martin Luther King revisited MAYER WAKEFIELD salutes a fresh angle on the conflicted soul that led the civil rights movement
Preview Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 Preview A brilliant performance LOUIS BAYMAN admires Mike Leigh’s bleakly comic take on a black woman’s experience of depression that offers no easy answers
Crime Fiction Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 Crime Fiction Crime fiction with Mat Coward: January 7, 2025 A late Christmas cornucopia, a Canadian wolf, a dodgy motel and Peter Diamond’s last bow
Fiction Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 Fiction Stepping back from activism JENNY FARRELL detects a departure from the political trajectory of Rooney’s previous work
