Album: When The Haar Rolls In  new (Rated 4/ 5 )

Issues of self-doubt, the decline of one's youthful powers, and regrets over the road not taken dominate this fourth album from East Fife bard James Yorkston.

Tarantino goes on the warpath

Hitler, Goebbels and Churchill all feature in the next Quentin Tarantino movie, with Brad Pitt and Mike Myers among the cast. Jonathan Dean reports on the latest twist in an eccentric career

Attempt At The Impossible (1928)

Paintings visualise the world for us. They observe or imagine what it looks like. They show us the sight of things. But not always. Some paintings do just the opposite. They show us something, while declaring that they've no idea how it really was. Take the early pictures of René Magritte.

The songs remain the same...

While some bands evolve, others owe their popularity to giving their fans what they're used to, writes Tim Walker

Cultural Life: Sebastian Barry, novelist

Peter Brook: The director who wrote the book

Peter Brook wrote the bible for 1960s theatre's revolutionaries with 'The Empty Space' and, at 83, is still relentlessly pushing boundaries. He tells Paul Taylor why he has to live in the moment