The typical Jason Statham movie character – muscular, resourceful, drily humorous – could probably carve an army into ...

Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, the ...

Over the last three years of the London Handel Festival, two experimental productions have proved to be highlights – not just ...

The BBC Philharmonic took its Saturday night audience on a journey into French sonic luxuriance – in reverse order of ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Over the last three years of the London Handel Festival, two experimental productions have proved to be highlights – not just of the festival itself – but of the musical year. In 2023, Adele Thomas’s ...

A pizzicato violin opens Song Over Støv. Gradually, other instruments arrive: bowed violin, a fluttering flute, pattering ...

The sticker on the front cover says “The heaviest proto-metal compilation ever released.” And considering the label behind ...

The dramatic allure of families neck-deep in organised crime never seems to falter, and Stephen Butchard’s new series continues that great tradition in rambunctious style. Sean Bean (pictured below) ...

On the spoken word LP Loose Talk, Amelia Barratt reflects on her or other women’s experiences, real or imagined, over ...

In Italy, they did it differently. Their pulp fiction tales of suburban transgression appeared between yellow covers on new ...

In Italy, they did it differently. Their pulp fiction tales of suburban transgression appeared between yellow covers on new ...