Alex Gino’s George is hitting the shelves of US bookstores at a time when transgender issues are everywhere — high-profile trans women are occupying an important part of the media conversation,...
“Straight Outta Compton” explodes with a blank screen, helicopter blades and media chatter. We could be starting another zombie apocalypse or alternatively listening to a multi-layered, cinematic...
New Zealander Anna Smaill’s debut novel is an interesting choice for the Man Booker longlist. It crosses at least one, and I suspect, two, general Booker taboos – it’s genre fiction, and it...
In the live action adaptation of the popular manga series “Attack On Titan” the scraps of flesh that make up the last surviving members of humanity have been cowering in fear behind three...
It’s hard to image that a television series about urban planning would be that interesting — one might as well subscribe to a channel allowing people to watch paint dry, or Norway’s infamous...
Since the two-and-a-half-year-old truce between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group broke down in recent weeks one often sees and hears the term “Kurdish separatists” or...
Indian Summers, the latest UK telly import, will be hitting US screens via PBS this September. The show appears tipped to be a Downton Abbey successor, building on what made the smash hit such a...
Exotic. A word that contains worlds. You browse through a dictionary, and you find the word exotic defined as “strange or unusual”. In its archaic sense, it was used as synonym of foreign or...
The countdown to a new season of Doctor Who has begun with the announcement of a 19 September premiere, and while we’ll be seeing the usual suspects, Moffat has once again recruited some famous...
The long-awaited third novel in Marilynne Robinson’s beloved Gilead series, Lila was released last year to an enthusiastic reception by both readers and critics. And there’s no doubt about it –...
