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What if .... the Beatles had never formed

By Dominic Sandbrook

Music

Dames are forever

By Sophie Elmhirst - 19 November

Should Britney sync or sing?

By Mark Watson - 19 November

Chick Corea/Béla Fleck

By Sholto Byrnes - 19 November

Sholto Byrnes applauds a jazz performance that is full of fireworks

Alfred Schnittke Archive

Alfred Schnittke Archive

By Rick Jones - 05 November

Rick Jones discovers a forgotten genius of 20th-century music

1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About

Joshua Clover
Reviewed by Owen Hatherley
Theatre

The Habit of Art

By Andrew Billen - 26 November

Humour obscures the character of Alan Bennett’s new play

Pains of Youth / Days of Significance

Pains of Youth / Days of Significance

By Andrew Billen - 12 November

Blairite boozers reach the parts that 1920s medics can't

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

By Andrew Billen - 29 October

The erstwhile Victor Meldrew is on fine form

The Power of Yes

The Power of Yes

By Andrew Billen - 15 October

David Hare is brilliant on last year's financial crash

The NS Interview: Fiona Shaw

The NS Interview: Fiona Shaw

By Sophie Elmhirst - 24 September

Film

Stephen Poliakoff

Dawn of the dead

Radio

Joan Armatrading

Armatrading for Mayor

Berlin

East Side Gallery

Cold war modern

Books

Condition of England

The Condition of England

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

Biography

John Cheever

Cheever: a Life

Terry Eagleton

On Walter Benjamin

Waking the dead

Theatre

Pains of Youth

Pains of Youth / Days of Significance

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