The National, May 2017 It remains Agatha Christie’s biggest unsolved mystery. The year was 1926, and the “Queen of Crime” had just published one of her finest detective novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. With […]
The National, May 2017 Sometimes, a novel introduces a character so believable, so moving and so original that there is a feeling of real loss when you turn the final page. I reread the ending […]
Vision, May 2017 It has always been the stuff of speculative science fiction. In the metropolis of the future depicted in Blade Runner, The Fifth Element or even Back to the Future, trips around the […]
The National, May 2017 “I have been there and, believe me, I have been afraid.” This was how the first African-American Arctic explorer, Matthew Henson, described his expeditions to the North Pole in 1912. It […]
The Arts Society, May 2017 For a band who put the mind-altering mayhem of psychedelic music on the map, the entrance to Pink Floyd’s first international retrospective seems surprisingly literal. But the Victoria and Albert […]