Stage dogs are all bark, no bite
Gagarin Way , the Tarantinoesque hit of the Edinburgh Festival, is a backward-looking play that is eclipsing risk-taking projects, argues Greg Giesekam. Few observers of theatre will not now know of...
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Whose land is it anyway?
Tension is mounting over land reform in South Africa. Can the government avoid a Zimbabwe scenario? Karen MacGregor reports. Pat Dunn's life has been a nightmare since she returned from political...
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Leaving the minarets to be inspired in Birmingham
During a visit to Islamic faculties in Kuala Lumpur this summer, I was struck by the number of academic staff holding PhDs from Britain. At one meeting, at the National University of Malaysia, of...
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Debate, definition and much dithering
Perspectives on Industrial Archaeology
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Finding the right tools to break a guilty silence
The German Trauma
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist admired by Turgenev, Henry James and Queen Victoria: "Miss Brooke had that kind...
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Punters' joy sets a Bard example
A Triptych from the Russian Theatre
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Would a trip to the city heal outcast who snubs street cred?
Contemporary British Poetry and the City
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On bohos, Bonzos and urban pastorals
Bohemians
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The corps that cheated death
The Royal Marines
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A future where we see ourselves
A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Movie theory that fails to move
The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium - Watching
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Battle of the baroque hedgehog and the Gothic fox
Identity and Modernity in Latin America
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Finding a wiser use for electric currents
Echoes down the Corridor
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Tableaus glorying in sawn-off corners
Mamoun Hassan revels in the humanism of a unique film-maker. The film director François Truffaut, never one to hold back - he famously derided British cinema as a contradiction in terms - was quite...