Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural imagination, Caleb Femi’s rave-influenced poetry collection and new novels by Adam ...

Robert Burns most probably wrote the famous poem “Address to a Haggis” in 1786 for a dinner at the house of his merchant friend Andrew Bruce. Burns, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, ...

Best known for her gravelly voice and sultry image, the singer and actress and former associate of The Rolling Stones has ...

Szenes legacy is such that Agent Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Agent draws inspiration from real-life ...

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.

There are romance novels in our picks (Brynne Weaver’s Scythe And Sparrow is of particular note), but we’ve also got some ...

The Chinese artist and filmmaker Alan Zhang, in her first feature, dramatizes a married woman’s struggle for freedom amid ...

In her third feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Amreeka' director tells a multigenerational story of a family expelled from Jaffa in 1948.

As an influx of artists seeking space and inspiration come to the Hudson Valley, a growing number of galleries have sprung up ...

The mystery of why our nightingale population has plummeted far below our neighbours in Europe may have been explained.

A LitFest in Kozhikode The sunny beaches of Kozhikode, formerly Calicut, came alive from January 23-26, 2025 with the eighth ...

"All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy," Durham poet Bridget Bell's debut collection, comes out on February 4.