Art is a way: struggle, loss, and black living

Pierre d’Alancaisez on Art COURTESY OF CHENG-LAN ART ...

December round-up Although he’s been writing and performing for many years, Donald WG Lindsay might come across as a bold new Scottish talent on Two Boats Under the Moon, his excellent two-disc debut

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

The arts sector has long been unthinkingly in thrall to the supposedly “progressive” left but a coherent, coordinated, conservative strategy could, and should, shift the consensus

I WAS lonely. Papa was a preacher and we lived and travelled in a painted wooden wagon, pulled by Jessie, a large and docile shire horse. We had few possessions; there was no room for what Papa called

Fondly remembered this month...