Culture

theguardian “Something has changed, but we don’t know what,” says Sophie Mackintosh. She’s explaining the scenario of her second novel, Blue Ticket, but she could just as easily be describing the situation in which we find ourselves.…
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theguardian With summer drawing to a close, people across the country are looking back through their holiday photos feeling perhaps a little less rested than they had done in previous years. Mercurial changes in the government’s travel…
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theguardian It’s a prequel. Sort of. While Endeavour stars Shaun Evans as then-DC Morse in late 60s Oxford and the new Perry Mason origin series revels in its depiction of a seedy-glamorous 30s Los Angeles, Young Wallander’s fresh-faced…
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theguardian Is it possible to know anything, philosophers have pondered for centuries? In the case of two heavyweight French thinkers, the question is more: is it possible to know too much? A respected French philosopher has publicly…
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theguardian The subject of Eric Merola’s film at first seems small: how a private bank in the tiny mountain nation of Andorra found itself at the centre of a conspiracy. But its real interests are wide-reaching: the tactics used by the…
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theguardian Two Weeks to Live (Sky One) stamps the words NORTH OF ENGLAND across the screen, in big, bold, sans serif capital letters. It drops us straight into the action in a roadside cafe that has a touch of the Edward Hoppers, then…
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theguardian Michael Sheen is to return to the stage in a revival of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer. It is the latest in the Old Vic’s series of live-streamed In Camera productions, which take place on its stage with socially distanced…
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theguardian Victoria’s coronavirus travel restrictions have meant the surfing community on Phillip Island have had the local beaches to themselves this past winter. While temperatures will rise with the onset of spring, these surfers…
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theguardian It’s Robin Ellacott’s wedding day and she has married the wrong man. She should have hitched herself to the darkly brooding, decorously scarred army vet-turned-gumshoe who, between cigarettes, drinks too many pints and eats…
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theguardian “There’s a heron in the book, too,” Patrik Svensson calls over after we notice the bird perched in the willow tree under whose arches the writer is being photographed. In The Gospel of the Eels, the 48-year-old journalist’s…
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