Culture

Catherine Clinton admires the story of a mixed-race girl with an aristocratic upbringing told against the background of the abolition of slavery

12 June

Celebrity creations and vintage gowns delight in an exhibition that marries social history and fashion, says Shahidha Bari

8 May

By using ‘children’ in adult roles the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse both challenges the audience and returns to original practice

10 April

The new MMU Novella Award will champion a form that continues to defy definition but which, says Robert Graham, prose fiction writers love

20 March

At Tate Britain, Leo Mellor finds potency, fatalism and beauty in depictions of transience, both gradual and cataclysmic

13 March

The vampire as cultured aesthete is the beatless heart of Jim Jarmusch’s peculiarly reassuring film, says Lucy Bolton

20 February

The tale of an unsaintly Aids sufferer’s rebellion sidesteps sentimentality and hints at hope, says Duncan Wu

6 February

Chants, used positively by Tottenham Hotspur fans, must not be appropriated by anti-Semites looking for an excuse to tout hatred, says Emma Rees

23 January

Physical aspects of a new theatre both add to and detract from a convincingly chilling tale of sororicide, attests Liz Schafer

16 January

Our complicity as onlookers sharpens Cormac McCarthy’s bleak morality tale, Duncan Wu finds

14 November

Davina Quinlivan considers the monster as a figure of loss and sadness as the BFI begins a season of ghoulish thrills

31 October

Clio Barnard’s loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s short story sees children condemned to life on the scrapheap

24 October

Alex Danchev delights in Tate Modern’s finely chosen feast of delicacies from the table of Paul Klee

17 October

Exhibitions on Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba evidence Tate Modern’s determinedly global sensibility, Shahidha Bari finds

18 July

Gary Day welcomes the master of malapropism to a screen with a scale that matches his talent: small

4 July

Davina Quinlivan detects a shift to more rounded representations of mental illness on screen

13 June

Catherine Clinton examines the novel’s enduring appeal as Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby bursts on to cinema screens

23 May