The Tricycle’s new wheels

Becoming the artistic director of any well-known theatre is always a tough gig. With Josie Rourke only one season into her tenure at the …

Classical cool

Who would have thought it? Who would have suspected that, amongst all the industrial hobbits, pogoing punks and (sometimes barely) resuscitated musical icons offered by …

Britain’s forgotten horsewoman

This summer, the British Museum offers us the opportunity to get up close and personal with one of the bravest, boldest and most important horsewomen that …

Fashion’s new wild child

With the Paris autumn/winter 2012 couture collections still fresh in our minds, fashion has rarely looked so, well, civilized. From Raf Simon’s debut at …

The cult of creativity

This article is published in Pages Of, a new culture and urbanism magazine created by Crystal Bennes and Cecilia Lindgren. You can buy a …

The luxury of a one-gulp read

Last Friday, I spent eight hours reading The Great Gatsby – in Soho, in the dark, along with six hundred or so other skiving bibliophiles. This extraordinary …

Breaking the ‘you loop’

The novelist Hari Kunzru has a concern. And no, it isn’t about the death of publishing. Or piracy, or plagiarism, or even the thought …

Is gender dividing the digital publishing industry?

Last Friday morning, an eager audience of aspiring authors, editors, agents and publishers sat gripping cups of strong coffee and gazing upon a veritable smorgasbord …

Reading London

I grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside and spent my formative years running half-naked in fields, riding resentful ponies and reading on a scratchy blanket …

Anne Tyler: Literary Heroine

The aim of Bookdiva is to bring women who love books together, and highlight books that women might want to read.

I’ve written before about …

Video design grows up

London’s new smash musical Singin’ In The Rain has more than its fair share of memorable moments. And although the scene where Don Lockwood (Adam Cooper) …

Jazz, meet word

If you asked any London culture vulture to identify the hottest trends in the capital this spring, jazz and spoken word are both likely to …

Is romantic fiction undervalued?

lt would be all too easy to satirise the Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards (RoNAs). When I’d traipsed through central London to One Whitehall Place – …

Silk and the city

It’s whispering down the catwalk at Somerset House for London Fashion Week. It’s caressed by every tourist nipping into Liberty’s for an iconic paisley scarf. …

Sport stories

If you were searching for a pastime that was the opposite of reading, you might well hit on sport. Burying your nose in a book …