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Hour of the Wolf by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Of the Nordic crime writers currently holding readers’ attention in an unbreakable grip, Håkan Nesser is comfortably the most anglocentric.
Alice Jones: What the new Sgt Pepper cover tells us about modern Britain
Saturday 07 April 2012
Where once stood Marilyn, now stands Delia, in a Norwich City scarf. HG Wells has been ousted by JK Rowling, Marlene Dietrich bumped by Kate Moss. As for John, George and Ringo – they're nowhere to be seen.
Cultural Life: Maverick Sabre, musician
Friday 06 April 2012
Music: Recently I've been listening to a record with Ella Fitzgerald on one side and Billie Holiday on the other side, and lots of music by Ahmad Jamal. I'm really into old jazz; I find it quite relaxing. It stems from when I was about 14 years old and getting into hip-hop producing. I used to listen to short little tunes that came from samples. So I still find jazz a big influence on the whole process of discovery in my work.
A man out of time
Monday 02 April 2012
As J M Barrie's ghost story Mary Rose comes to the stage, Paul Taylor explores how his arrested development added to his powers
J M Barrie: The man who wouldn't grow up
Monday 02 April 2012
As J M Barrie's classic ghost story Mary Rose comes to the London stage, Paul Taylor explores how arrested development only added to his powers as a playwright
Dial H for Hitchcock, the star of the Cultural Olympiad
Friday 30 March 2012
Nine of the Master's earliest films are being digitally restored for the 2012 celebrations. Geoffrey Macnab on Hitch's enduring appeal
The Diary: Punchdrunk's Sleep No More; Sweethearts; Jack Whitehall; Anish Kapoor's cannon; Spike Jonze
Friday 09 March 2012
Punchdrunk love
Trending: Playing a cinematic great? it's a tough act to follow, Scarlett
Tuesday 06 March 2012
Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh
Hitchcock caged bird recalls odd education
Friday 10 February 2012
Tippi Hedren's career was destroyed by the British director's obsession. Yet there was an upside, she tells Geoffrey Macnab
Tippi Hedren - Hitchcock's caged bird
Friday 10 February 2012
Tippi Hedren's career was destroyed by the British director's obsession. Yet there was an upside, she tells Geoffrey Macnab
Artistic tendencies: How long have you felt this way, Darth?
Sunday 05 February 2012
As a film chronicles Freud and Jung's battle of wits, Phil Boucher puts 10 artistic moments on the couch
Great Works: Jeunesse Doree, 1934 (76.2cm x 63.1cm), Gerard Brockhurst
Friday 30 December 2011
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool
Mystery behind Hitchcock's Birds is solved at last
Thursday 29 December 2011
Scientists link eerie avian suicides of 1961, which inspired cinema classic, to poison in the food chain
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