Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
Someone needs to keep on at the banks. Thank goodness for Joseph StiglitzThe financial, economic and political elite still find it hard to come to terms with the scale of the crash of 2008 or to...
View ArticleThe Wolfman
A remake of a classic horror movie is well acted and atmospheric yet fails to truly engage, writes Philip FrenchIn 1930 Carl Laemmle, the Hungarian-born founder of Universal Studios, sought to win the...
View ArticleArthur Koestler: the indispensable intellectual by Michael Scammell | Book...
From the right to life, to the right to die: an extract from Michael Scammell's biography of one of the most influential figures of the 20th centuryThis article has been removed as our copyright has...
View ArticleVictoria Derbyshire, Richard Madeley, The Ocean | Radio review
Miranda Sawyer admires Victoria Derbyshire's interviewing technique and makes a plea for BBC 6MusicWe're always hearing about the wonderfulness of interviewers such as John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman,...
View Article11 and 12, A Life in Three Acts and The 14th Tale | Theatre review
Barbican EC1, Soho W1 and Cottesloe SE1 Peter Brook's wise men offer enlightenment without controversy but there's a gay old life in Soho, writes Kate KellawayWatching 11 and 12 is like sitting at the...
View ArticleMassive Attack, Hammersmith Apollo, London W6 | Live review
Two decades into their career, the Bristolian trip-hop crew with live guest Damon Albarn are still as boldly confrontational as ever, says Kitty EmpireWere Massive Attack ever to tire of music-making,...
View ArticleWho's tipped for glory at the Baftas?
We ask our film critics and former winners for their view of the nominees for next weekend's ceremony, and Jason Solomons reflects on Bafta history and the future of the awardsLong gone are the days...
View ArticlePeter Gabriel: Scratch My Back | CD review
As the title implies, Peter Gabriel has set up a swap shop: I'll rework yours if you'll rework mine. Whether any of his chosen artists will reciprocate remains to be seen. sticks to the tried and...
View ArticleO'Hooley & Tidow: Silent June | CD review
The spare, dramatic piano parts that Belinda O'Hooley formerly brought to the Unthanks have grown into rippling, neo-classical arrangements on this first album with fellow singer and songwriter Heidi...
View ArticleOwl City: Ocean Eyes | CD review
Anyone with a low sugar tolerance should beware Owl City, aka Adam Young, the Minnesotan MySpace phenomenon currently topping the singles charts with "Fireflies". Following in that track's footsteps,...
View ArticleArthur Koestler: flawed crusader
Arthur Koestler's personal failings should not wholly detract from our appreciation of his achievementsArthur Koestler was a man of prodigious appetites. These he applied to everything he did, whether...
View ArticleA Raisin in the Sun, Ill Met by Moonlight and A Midsummer Night's Dream |...
Royal Exchange, Manchester, Trestle Arts Base, St Albans and Octagon, Bolton Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 civil rights classic sparks while there's a Waitsian take on Titiana and Oberon, writes Clare...
View ArticleMark Lockheart: Days Like These | CD review
Mark Lockheart's standing as a composer has been growing to match his reputation as a saxophonist for some time, but this is his first album for a full jazz orchestra. And what an orchestra! Germany's...
View ArticleThe Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy by Michael...
Everything about modern life conditions you for a life of unhappiness, broken dreams and thwarted ambition. Michael Foley's entertaining, intelligent book may just help you get over yourself, writes...
View ArticleNick Grimshaw: Meet BBC's It-boy
He's irreverent, witty, cheeky... and friend to Agyness, Daisy, Peaches and many more of Britain's hottest young celebs. He's also BBC's brightest new TV and radio star - which might explain why he's...
View ArticleTim Key: The Slutcracker | Comedy review
Soho Theatre, London W1 Deadpan delivery and careful choreography make for some beautifully shambolic stand-up comedy, writes Stephanie MerrittFor a show that is so centred on words, it is difficult to...
View ArticleThe Gambler at the Royal Opera House; George Benjamin 50th Birthday Concert,...
Prokofiev's early opera The Gambler is brittle, fragmented and baffling – but luckily in the very safest hands at Covent GardenThe climactic moment in Prokofiev's The Gambler is so hushed as to be...
View ArticleSilent Hill: Shattered Memories | Game review
Wii, cert 15 (Konami)Silent Hill, a survival-horror-cum-thriller franchise, has divided gamers in the past – its compulsive storyline and chilling ambience flawed by tedious tasks and puzzles. For...
View ArticleMarlene Dietrich 1901-92
Philip French’s screen legends: No 21‘I am not a myth,’ she said - one of her least convincing statements. Born in Berlin, the daughter of a military family, she broke on to the international scene...
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