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Sep 25, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Tsitsi Dangarembga |Jane Austen |Michelle Zauner |Muriel Spark
Nervous Conditionsby Tsitsi Dangarembga Find out more I was not sorry when my brother died. Chosen by Paula Hawkins, author of The Blue HourShort, not sweet. The first line of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s groundbreaking debut novel, Nervous Conditions, introduces us in disquieting and memorable fashion to her singular young narrator, Tambudzai Sigauke.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Richard Blandford |Wang Anyi |Muriel Spark |Ray Robinson
LoveReading Says He was the boy in the playground who could not play football, and knew too much about comics. That boy has not moved from where he was, always laden with a sense of fitting nowhere. Yet after a lifetime of misunderstanding, of feeling like an outsider, he has a new label, and a new name which has given him clarity that he has never before possessed. Fantasticus Autisticus his best friend, Olly calls him.
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May 1, 2024 | 
alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin |Gabriel Quigley |Muriel Spark
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? This week’s must see’s are a last chance for those Girls of Slender Means at the Lyceum (ends Sat: tickets) and the few seats left for Scottish Ballet’s sleek Swan Lake revival at the Festival (Thurs-Sat: tickets) – snap the latter up quick if you can!The big show in town is jukebox musical The Drifters Girl at the Playhouse (Tue – Sat: tickets).
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
wamu.org | Muriel Spark |Ayesha Rascoe
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin |Gabriel Quigley |Muriel Spark
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week? There’s not a lot of choice this week, with even the top local amateur production Cyrano de Bergarac seeing Arkle in the tiny 45-seat Hill Street Theatre (Wed – Sat: tickets), previewed here: Arkle nose what’s up. This week’s hot tip ticket is at the Studio, with When Mountains Meet (Thurs/Fri: tickets). This is the story of musician Anne Wood, who has Pakistani and Scottish heritage, meeting her father and his new family in Pakistan for the first time.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
wamu.org | Muriel Spark |Ayesha Rascoe
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin |Gabriel Quigley |Muriel Spark
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? The big news is the opening of The Girls of Slender Means at the Lyceum (ends Sat 4 May, tickets) in a week which is otherwise surprisingly, well, slender, on new shows. Which doesn’t mean that there is nothing else of interest. On the local amateur front, the young dreamers of the LYAMC have We Believe in Magic, their annual concert production at the Church Hill (Thurs-Sat: tickets).
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
alledinburghtheatre.com | Thom Dibdin |Gabriel Quigley |Muriel Spark
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week? Musical theatre or straight theatre? The choice is yours this week, with plenty of both on offer and a couple of juicy one-off events thrown in for good measure. The week opens with the return of Penpal Theatre’s Dram-a at the Depot at Leith Depot (Mon: tickets) which we reviewed here on its last outing. This is the script-in-hand night where you are advised to arrive early and grab a pint before enjoying the six short plays.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
haiti24.net | Steven A. Kaplan |Ismail Kadare |Muriel Spark |Étonnamment Cultivé
Barbancourtle rhum des connaisseurs La maison d’édition Fayard est en péril. Elle risque de sombrer en raison des coups violents portés par la grosse machine de conquête idéologique de Vincent Bolloré. Mais Fayard n’est pas un simple trophée, pas un média interchangeable qu’on achète, éviscère, grime et relance. Fayard est une institution nationale, voire internationale, pas une chapelle, pas l’objet d’un système de dépouilles politico-culturel.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
entertainment-mag.com | Muriel Spark
Dear readers,Even if you’re partial to the holiday season, and I am, this particular weekend can take on a prelapsarian feel. For many of us, these are the last days before we’re roped into a monthlong chorus line of celebration, wistfulness and reverence, before our relational identities consume everything else. You find yourself in dens and around tables by virtue of your blood, or someone’s ill-advised marriage. You may not always like who’s there. You may not always like yourself.
