Matthew Romain
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Sarah Perry’s 2016 bestseller The Essex Serpent has been described as “a novel of ideas”, which almost sounds like a warning to anybody...

Toronto’s Tallies have acknowledged their fondness for Aztec...

“This town makes me sweat”, declared Charlotte Aitchison at one point in this set, as she took a brief breather between songs. The 29-year-old...

Life, opined Thomas Hobbes, is “nasty, brutish, and short”. In...

Since their 2010 debut, Man Alive, Everything Everything have dissected the various structures of human relationships, from socio-...

My friend George claims to have nightmares about The Great Escape. In them he’s standing in an endless queue, never reaching the front, never...

Jude is the kind of girl that no-one would want to mess with – she can dance like a demon to Eric Clapton, skewer an ego in seconds and hit an...

As the final slew of episodes in the last series of Ozark...

Conductor and pianist came at Liszt from opposite directions last...

Andy Zaltzman comes on stage to deliver a short preamble to his show Satirist For Hire. Much of the hour is suggested by the audience as...