Reviews

Imagine a social network where users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves that it is impossible to imagine them leaving. Moving to a new site would be an enormous risk for users because you would lose your network of friends. The network’s entire existence, the theory goes, is secured […]

Vidya Balan returns to the big screen after 4 years with ‘Neeyat’. The actress’ last theatrical release was ‘Mission Mangal’ with Akshay Kumar. The actress is currently gearing up for the release of her film. Ahead of its official theatrical release, a special screening of ‘Neeyat’ was held in Mumbai. The who’s who of the […]

King Charles was presented with the crown jewels of Scotland in a historic thanksgiving serving today before he and Queen Camilla stood side by side with the Prince and Princess of Wales to watch a Red Arrows flypast. The monarch received the Crown of Scotland, the Sceptre and the Sword of State of the Honours […]

The scent of spicy chorizo fried in olive oil and barbecued fresh fish wafts through Comporta’s sun-bleached streets, where soft jazz plays from chic little wine bars and local farmers wearing football shirts sit on plastic chairs in shaded squares. It’s Sunday afternoon and the white storks are snapping their beaks from the terracotta rooftops, […]

Colin Walsh’s remarkably assured debut begins with an epigraph from Margaret Atwood. In Atwood’s 1988 novel Cat’s Eye, an artist returns to her Canadian home town only to be flooded with painful memories from her youth, particularly related to her estranged friend – and erstwhile bully – Cordelia. In Walsh’s novel, it is the eponymous […]

Only a pedant and a bore would complain that the last word of that title should be “cancer”. The phrase’s childlike naivety and irrelevance, apparently taken from an obsolete era when smoking was considered bad in the sense that eating cream cakes was bad, is a hint of what you’re in for: a fantastically silly […]