Archive for July, 2020

A fresh take on pride and joy

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Pride was always a tricky thing for the boy who would grow up to become very capitalised rapper L-FRESH The LION.

A fresh take on pride and joy

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Pride was always a tricky thing for the boy who would grow up to become very capitalised rapper L-FRESH The LION.

Auschwitz author Eddie Jaku: how to be happy and live to 100

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Friendship, kindness and love saved me, says the 100-year-old first-time author of his journey from concentration camp survivor to witness of the past.

Auschwitz author Eddie Jaku: how to be happy and live to 100

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Friendship, kindness and love saved me, says the 100-year-old first-time author of his journey from concentration camp survivor to witness of the past.

Fiction reviews: The Extraordinaries and other titles

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Author TJ Klune’s The Extraordinaries is a superhero adventure where all the main players are queer.

Sinister goings-on in a small-town hospital

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Will a baby killer from years earlier return to threaten the child of psychiatrist Isabel Harris?

The pandemic art chose to forget

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Perhaps it was the welter of sacrifice that preceded it, but the horrors of the Spanish flu were largely overlooked by society’s creatives.

On my mind: What Tommy Emmanuel on Tom Hanks, the Beatles and fish

Friday, July 31st, 2020

As well as revisiting old favourites, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has discovered Ken Burns’ new TV series on country music which “blew his mind”.

Will the pandemic reshape fashion? Graduates embrace a new-look normal

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Our most promising young designers hope COVID-19 will mean the end of disposable dressing.

A bold negotiation of America’s racial divide

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Brit Bennett’s second novel has rocketed to the status of bestseller.