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Theatre Review / 4 September 2026
4 September 2026

PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries

artwashing
Opinion / 4 September 2026
4 September 2026

APURBA CHATTERJEE explains how British artists in India used the “picturesque” to reshape colonial landscapes and celebrate imperial power

Wobbler
Theatre Review / 4 September 2026
4 September 2026

SIMON PARSONS applauds an exceptional performance of Wesker’s little-known play, by the same actor for whom it was written 45 years ago

she's green
Music Review / 4 September 2026
4 September 2026

JAMES NALTON feels history in the making, witnessing the latest shoegaze sensation in an intimate club

round up
Cinema / 3 September 2026
3 September 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Late Fame, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

fotw
Film of the Week / 3 September 2026
3 September 2026

ANGUS REID recommends a uniquely accomplished documentary collage that contemplates our relation to the natural world

kant
Book Review / 3 September 2026
3 September 2026

GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience

castro
Book Review / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

DAVID RABY welcomes a biography that emphasises how Fidel’s unique characteristics became hallmarks of the ongoing Cuban revolutionary process

HOW FASCISM BEGAN: Prisoners guarded by SA men line up in the yard of Oranienburg concentration camp, 6 April 1933 [Pic: Public Domain]
Book Review / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

MARJ MAYO recommends an engaging, if chilling, collection of diaries and letters that trace a population's capacity for accommodation with Nazism

mamdani
Book Review / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

IAN SINCLAIR recommends a readable, if partisan, account of the astonishing campaign of New York's new mayor

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023
21st Century Poetry / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

by Marwa Paikan

mortals
Follow the Movement / 2 September 2026
2 September 2026

MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence