Nick Cave at Alexandra Palace – rock and roll’s wild man has become a shaman
A man sits at a piano and sings: “Once there was a song, the song yearned to be sung”. What is this song, that is
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A man sits at a piano and sings: “Once there was a song, the song yearned to be sung”. What is this song, that is
Nobody walks in London or not really. Living in the 21st century city doesn’t really lend itself to it. People tend to move with purpose,
As we might expect, The Trip to Greece starts with a bad joke. Surveying the ruins of Troy, Steve Coogan reveals that he had a bad dream
In the second year of the Peloponnesian War, the great tussle between Greece’s two pre-eminent city-states that led to the eventual downfall of Athenian hegemony
In literature, there are two fundamental journeys: descent, katabasis, the progress into our basest element, and its reverse, ascent. At the extreme of each, there
When we think of sacrifice, we tend to think in terms of the cosmic. Jesus on the cross, Iphigenia at Aulis; the images with which
There’s a simple message at the heart of Ghosteen, the new album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. We hear it over and again
The Souvenir is not the film you think it is. Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman who falls under the sway of an
It’s been nearly half a century since anyone tried to adapt Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 for the screen. The first (and last) successful attempt, in 1970,
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