3+ hour, 49+ min ago  (236+ words) Siri Hustvedt's reflections on the death of her husband offer a wise meditation on grief and its many mutations As his widow, Siri Hustvedt, writes in Ghost Stories, a memoir of her late husband, their marriage and her grief, the…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (215+ words) Good luck getting Big Tech to ask the hard questions about art When I spoke to Jennifer Walshe, a professor of composition at the University of Oxford whose music will appear at Shift, my anxieties felt overblown. The author of…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (199+ words) Good luck getting Big Tech to ask the hard questions about art When I spoke to Jennifer Walshe, a professor of composition at the University of Oxford whose music will appear at Shift, my anxieties felt overblown. The author of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (209+ words) The American rapper does not need to rely on flashy costumes and expensive sets to captivate audiences " she herself is the show Doja Cat floated up on stage at the O2 to greet a melting pot of sub-cultures unified by a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1048+ words) New Statesman If someone says they're on a farewell tour, then does another tour a couple of years later, we tend to assume it was all a money-making ruse. But it is worth considering that with some musicians, there may…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (77+ words) New Statesman Dean's wholesome audience knows every word of her songs The 27-year-old Dean's second album, The Art of Loving, is Tapestry (1971) by Carole King for anyone too young to remember Carole King: a beloved record of the kind that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1011+ words) New Statesman I once asked a survivor from the British cinema of the late 1940s and 1950s what the film industry then was like, and she replied: "There wasn't one." That was an exaggeration, as a new season at BFI Southbank, "Great…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (176+ words) The premiere of Puccini's Turandot, a century ago, was also the wake for a venerated cultural tradition In the 1890s, Puccini had been lined up as the successor to the great Giuseppe Verdi, but in 1926 there was no heir apparent. As…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (200+ words) Abba Voyage's hologram performance was an astounding success. But tribute artists aren't worried yet It's Friday night and a familiar figure is on stage at 100 Club, underneath London's Oxford Street. She's got the beehive hairdo, the tattoos, the lip piercing,…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1627+ words) Liza Minnelli has spent 80 years performing her way through everything life threw at her " and what life threw, it turns out, was quite a lot. Her memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! arrives with th Liza Minnelli has spent…...