2014 sees the centenary of the birth of the great American short story writer and novelist Bernard Malamud - both his UK and US publishers have produced new editions of his collected works to celebrate
"Inside, you heave aside a heavy curtain and look on to a wedge-shaped space so filled with noise you can almost see it"
New York's best restaurant is a Willy Wonka wonderful reboot of fine dining
"A couple of the bar’s expertly mixed, super-sized drinks and you might start to hallucinate these taking fright and scampering away out onto 77th street, taking shelter as you order up another martini and wait out the end of the world"
"I’m so over this pretence that offering meagre portions of food 'to share' is anything other than a way of maximising profit"
"Beats falling like gigantic footsteps, noise seems to have overflowed from some subterranean otherwhere, surging up like black water" - Neil Stewart reviews The Haxan Cloak at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Neil Stewart enjoys Meg Wolitzer’s novel of youthful comings of age, and the trials and consolations of maturity, among a group of creative types
"The baby steps that we take towards intimacy, the perennial insecurities, the pitfalls of love... people not quite managing to say what they mean, or mean what they say"
Neil Stewart dines at the most romantic restaurant in Marrakech
"An Apocalypse Now for a world where rainforests are long gone, replaced by neon-lit shopping malls"
