Marianka Swain
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‘Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief’, wrote Amy Levy, ‘it is only when we come face to face with it that we find...

There’s a rich seam of folk stories about changelings, infants snatched from home and replaced with a substitute child, to the horror and...

I honestly never thought I'd add a Cher song to my painstakingly curated ...

It could have been a winner: a charismatic star soprano of great emotional and interpretative intelligence, a top pianist given a little space to...

The cat in the hat with the mellifluous voice delivers his Christmas Wish for the festive season, his first Christmas album, and it...

A decade has passed since Paul Lewis concluded an endeavour of a kind never previously undertaken: to perform, over two and a half years and...

As the audience enters, thick mist envelopes the thrust stage and jazz music fills the...
The Boxing Day release of Michael Mann’s first feature in eight years, Ferrari, finally follows up Blackhat, a Chris Hemsworth-...