The Hairy Ape – review
Southwark Playhouse, LondonHell on earth is currently to be found in Southwark Playhouse, where director Kate Budgen makes her mark with a feverish and visually arresting revival of Eugene O'Neill's grimy 1922 expressionistic drama.A classic story of a...
Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
The rise of hay-smoking, good news for older mums and the coming of a gay superheroHay smokedSeeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good.Good news for older mums!It's n...
Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
The rise of hay-smoking, good news for older mums and the coming of a gay superheroHay smokedSeeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good.Good news for older mums!It's n...
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland by Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant – review
By James SmartThe stubborn, eloquent and curious Pekar spent his life in Cleveland, Ohio, working as a clerk and writing comics that celebrated the strangeness of everyday life. He died in 2010, and this posthumous graphic work is half straightforward ...
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W Beyer
By PD SmithGrace Hopper, who became a "coder" (or programmer) in the 1940s, was one of the great pioneers of the computer age. In 1934 she had been the first woman in Yale's 233-year history to graduate with a doctorate in maths. After Pearl Harbor, sh...
Waterstones deal with Amazon puts Kindle and ebooks instore
Waterstones will sell Kindle e-readers for the first time and offer free Wi-Fi, so customers can buy a book or download it instoreWaterstones has announced a surprise tie-up with Amazon that will enable shoppers to pluck ebooks as well as physical book...
Heist of the century: university corruption and the financial crisis
Why was the response from US academic experts to the global financial crisis so muted? In the second extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that corruption in universities is deeply entrenchedMany people who saw my documentary Inside...
Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac
The Beat writer's masterpiece On the Road has been made into a film. But why has it taken 55 years to get it on to the screen?Age: Died in 1969, aged 47.Appearance: Dead Beat.Who was he? A leading novelist and poet of the Beat Generation.Oh right....
Heavy hitter from left field
British readers worried that US bestselling novel The Art of Fielding is purely about baseball can allay their fears. The sport is in the book to focus on the hero's very public crisis, says the authorThe Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach's debut novel of ...
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