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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
Visiting the two currently-running plays, Jessie Thompson considers critiques of Capitalism, Conservative ideologies and the self-serving class system in Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Julian Mitchell's Another Country, finding them still dishearteningly relevant thirty years later
Speaking to the Leningrad-born poet at his home in Berlin, Eve Richens asks Eugene Ostashevsky about his current project - The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi - his vast array of influences, from Shakespeare to Soviet linguistic propaganda, and the communicative abilities of animals
With 'riverrun', the newest in a long line of artistic adaptations of Joyce's famously-less-than-permeable novel, currently playing at the National Theatre Stephanie Boland considers the difficulties of adapting and interpreting Finnegans Wake and Olwen Fouéré's production
In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction
As the Winter Olympics opens in Sochi, we present an extract from Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories, published by OR Books, and a glimpse in to the devastating effects of Russia's draconian laws and social attitudes toward homosexuality. The book, by turns harrowing, hilarious and affirming, is nothing if not necessary
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