Neil D.A. Stewart

Review: Hatfield’s, L.A [CLOSED]

"I’m intrigued, too, as to what these things called 'English peas', which cropped up a couple of times, could possibly be: luminous green, they had a taste and texture closer to chickpeas, and resembled no podded pea I’ve ever seen in the UK"

Walking the dead: David Bowie’s Berlin

by Neil D.A. Stewart

From Hitler salutes to Aleister Crowley, Neil Stewart looks at the singer's darkest period

Review: <em>Dear Life</em> by Alice Munro

Review: Dear Life by Alice Munro

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Could any book live up to two years’ worth of buildup as “the possibly final book by the writer widely acknowledged as the greatest teller of short stories in the world”?

Review and recipe: Ben Shewry’s Attica, Melbourne

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Three to four months’ advance notice for a quiet Tuesday dinner? In Melbourne? “It’s more like six to eight months if you’re wanting a Saturday,” she confirms

William Basinski | Ever decreasing circles

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Performed live and reissued a decade after it was first recorded, The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski remains a remarkable, peerless and haunting elegy to 9/11

Review: Recette, New York [CLOSED]

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Jesse Schenker's Greenwich Village restaurant serves up serious small plates and s'mores along with a soundtrack of Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and, somewhat peculiarly, Phil Collins