Dale Shaw
03 September 2025
The Raincoats, music’s best kept secret
Formed at the height of punk and revered by fans like Kurt Cobain, the Raincoats are the band that refused to die
Read the full article27 August 2025
The art of male friendship
A new film captures the awkward, brittle reality of late-life male companionship
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21 brilliant, bizarre and downright bad beach books
From Perfection and Careless People to Stephen King and Katie Price, your summer reading is sorted
Read the full article16 July 2025
Jen Calleja, the punk-rock translator
Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear
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The simple joy and complex roots of Dick Bruna’s Miffy
Miffy is Dick Bruna’s most famous creation, selling over 85 million books. But the beloved bunny is only a small part of the story
Read the full article05 June 2025
Why ABBA still eludes us
Serious books are being written about the pop icons. But do we risk letting light in on the magic?
Read the full article13 April 2025
The nuclear history of the bikini
In the shadow of the bomb, two men fought to create the smallest swimsuit in the world
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Europe’s best literary hotels
From where authors stayed to where they set their novels, a selection of reading rooms for travelling bookworms
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The days of Dolce Vita
Hollywood on the Tiber lifts the lid of Rome’s riotous postwar film industry
Read the full article12 February 2025
The cookbooks which hurl you headlong into the beating heart of a nation
The original great European cookbooks may be filled with recipes that we no longer use, but they take us back to the past in a poignant way
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