Neil D.A. Stewart

To the moon and back | Pina Bausch’s Vollmond returns to London

"I was horrified that the audience for last year’s Sadlers Wells revival of Nelken seemed to find its portrayal of fascist brutality rollickingly hilarious"

Don appetit | Rowley Leigh’s return to London dining

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"I poured the sauce into my dessert spoon and ate by itself, mouthful by sumptuous sticky mouthful"

Writing despite and to spite it all | The best books of 2024

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"More so than ever in 2024, it seems to me to take courage – the against-all-odds kind – to publish anything"

In full Bloomsday

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Approaching Dublin with Ulysses in mind, if not in hand, is like wearing a set of bifocals that fractures the city into complementary parallels: so much has changed a century later, and so much seems unchanged"

Review: <em>Supplication</em> by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Review: Supplication by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"I’ll contentedly consume any quantity of bodily grotesquerie, haunted houses and monstrous otherings, and Supplication delivers on all these"

Too loud down under | Ace Hotel Sydney

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"I saw one guest fall down them and another trip up them in a few minutes: not the best first impression"

Melbourne’s grandest dames

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Neil D.A. Stewart explores some of his favourite city's hidden Victorian secrets

Buzz reads | The best books of 2023

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Neil D.A. Stewart on the best books of 2023, and the one that really should have won

Breakfast epiphanies | Brunch at The Four Seasons, Bengaluru

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"For me it’s all about eating as much Indian food as possible"

The ages of Attica

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"to season food with native saltbush and pepperberry is not exotic for people who have lived off the land for unnumbered centuries"

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