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TV review: The Fall | Dates | The Returned

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:41:39 GMT

TEN minutes before the end of The Fall and I’m pretty sure they’re going to get him.

Album reviews: Sigur Rós | Lloyd Cole | Tim Odell

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:37:15 GMT

Although physically reduced to a rock power trio of drums, bass and vocals, the Icelanders’ assertive ambience continues to challenge, confound and sound like nobody else.

Film reviews: Man of Steel | I am Breathing

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:32:08 GMT

Another attempt to relaunch Superman into the movie skies, this time with uncharismatic Henry Cavill in the lead, propped up by a roster of famous names, including Russell Crowe as a superdad who rides dragonflies, Kevin Costner as a more homespun adopted father, and Amy Adams as a surprisingly spiritless Lois Lane.

Film review: Before Midnight (15)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:27:00 GMT

Eighteen years ago, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy teamed up with director Richard Linklater to make what is probably the chattiest movie romance ever.

Film review: World War Z (15)

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:23:57 GMT

Diehards may mourn the lack of entrails but this is more of a suspense movie than a gorefest

Stanley Odd: When indie meets rap

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:19:06 GMT

Solareye can teach Caledonia and Britannia a thing or two about protest, writes Aidan Smith

Visual art: Man Ray Portraits

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:15:41 GMT

A remarkable story of creative metamorphosis is reflected in Man Ray’s gallery of 20th century greats

Book review: Meet Me In Gaza, by Louise B Waugh

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:05:29 GMT

Intrepid Louisa Waugh discovers friendship and fascination in the ‘world’s largest open-air prison’, writes David Robinson

Book reviews: Sisterland, by Curtis Sittenfeld

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:03:23 GMT

CURTIS Sittenfeld came to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic with her daring and provocative 2008 novel American Wife, which was loosely based on the life of Laura Bush but was really a study of the marriage of opposites.

Book review: Here And Now: Letters 2008-2011, by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:46:35 GMT

THIS could have been, and at times very nearly is, a most touching book: a correspondence between two men, one in his sixties, the other turning 70, both highly regarded novelists (one having won the ultimate accolade, the Nobel Prize), striking sparks off each other, shedding light on their work and becoming friends in the process.

Book review: Investment in Blood: The True Costs Of Britain’s Afghan War, by Frank Ledwidge

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:44:41 GMT

BY THE time British troops start coming home for good some time towards the end of next year, the 12-year campaign in Afghanistan will have cost UK taxpayers at least £40 billion – probably more.

Andrew Eaton-Lewis: Humanising Princess Diana

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:40:39 GMT

YOU don’t get many chances to use the names Princess Diana and Hitler in the same sentence, so I’m relishing this one.

Moment of youth for director Mark Cousins

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:34:49 GMT

An Edinburgh Film Festival documentary reveals why we are in a golden age for screen depictions of children. Director Mark Cousins tells Andrew Eaton-Lewis how he became the toast of Cannes

Anna Burnside: Games without frontiers

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:28:50 GMT

School sports day isn’t quite what it was with a potato on your spoon instead of an egg, but everyone’s a  winner on the playing fields of Scotland

Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:04:29 GMT

She was the first woman in space and, 50 years on, her solo mission has never been equalled. Ken MacTaggart recalls meeting Valentina Tereshkova

Claire Black: Spare Rib struggle alienates readers

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:57:36 GMT

OH COME on. Has this been dreamed up by Jeremy Clarkson? Feminist writer wants to relaunch feminist magazine and feminist founders of said magazine, after initially being supportive, decide that what they mean by lending their support is trademarking the name and calling in their lawyers. Solidarity.

Fordyce Maxwell: Gallows humour, useful for holidays

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:47:22 GMT

I’D NEVER closed a hotel before. Not alone, true, but as our slightly disgruntled band filed out to the train on a Sunday morning, emotional Italian hotel staff were clearing tables for the last time.

Dawn of a new era for Viagra drug

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:05:28 GMT

What are the implications for public health and private happiness as Pfizer’s patent on Viagra runs out, asks Dani Garavelli

TV review: The Call Centre | Mad Dogs | Love And Marriage

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:40:48 GMT

THE scene-setting first few moments of any new docusoap happen so quickly that you can doubt yourself when, say, you see a boss pass the desk of one of his workers and tweak a nipple.

Too much too young

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:35:20 GMT

IN THEIR pained journey through adolescence, the progeny of Michael Jackson have discovered that a world without masks or veils is an unforgiving place. In the four years since the sudden death of their father, they have been asked to suffer a private loss under public scrutiny. It is an undertaking that would challenge even the most grounded of adults. To ask it of the children of one of the 20th century’s most enduring and contentious icons is another matter entirely.