Society & Culture > Media, arts & sport
Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
Revolt of the spirit
23 Jan 1997
Phil Watson reviews 'Dada turns red: The politics of surrealism' by Helena Lewis (Edinburgh University Press 1990, pp229, £12.95)
I know what I like
16 Jan 1997
Tom Ball reviews 'Art', directed by Matthew Warchus (Wyndham’s Theatre, London - £9.50-£25)
The ties that bind
28 Nov 1996
Kevin Watts reviews Lone Star, directed by John Sayles
Mob society
28 Nov 1996
Tom Ball reviews Rigoletto (English National Opera, London)
Fighting against compromise
28 Nov 1996
Andy Barrett is a writer and performer based in Nottingham. He was artistic director of the Touch and Go theatre company for two years and he helped set up and organise the successful arts project, Alive Arts, in Nottingham. He is currently touring with two pieces he has written and performs in. Phil Rudge spoke to him after a performance of Epic at a Revolutionary Communist Party conference, Where are all the heroes?, in London last week.
Properly utopian
07 Nov 1996
Kevin Watts reviews Breaking the waves, co-written and directed by Lars von Trier
Mummified ideology
24 Oct 1996
Phil Rudge reviews Red square, black square - Organon for revolutionary imagination by Vladislav Todorov (1995, pp200)
Unsaleable discovery
10 Oct 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Blinded by the sun by Stephen Poliakoff, directed by Ron Daniels (Cottosloe theatre, London)
Human contradiction
10 Oct 1996
From the debate surrounding the novels of Irvine Welsh, Phil Rudge argues that under today’s cultural conditions only artists who choose the lines of most resistance are able to even approach a committed literature
Radical pioneers
26 Sep 1996
Phil Watson reviews Beat, Rhymes and Life, by A Tribe called Quest (Jive CD)
Folk enters Britpop
19 Sep 1996
Eddie Ford reviews Norma Waterson by Norma Waterson (Hannibal/Ryhodisc, 1996)
Dangerous desires
19 Sep 1996
Crude attempt
12 Sep 1996
Breon James reviews Independence Day (directed by Roland Emmerich, 1996)
Action sundered
12 Sep 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Judith, a parting from the body, by Howard Barker (Battersea Arts Centre)
Anti-propaganda propaganda
05 Sep 1996
Helen Ellis reviews the new Labour exhibition (Riverside Artists Group, Riverside Studios Gallery)