Review: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

"Creaky plotting", overlong and a "missed opportunity". Neil Stewart finds much at fault with Eleanor Catton's much hyped Man Booker-longlisted novel

Why I love “Love to Love You Baby”

"I don’t know why I associated all this with New York City – it was recorded in Munich by Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and released before Studio 54 had even got its tax evasion systems in order"

The business of art and fashion

Bayode Oduwole of Pokit contemplates the relationships between art, fashion and money

Fashion film stills | Ruth Hogben

Review: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Torture, white slavery, forced heroin addiction and genocide – unlikely sources for comedy, but Anthony Marra's story, set across two Chechen wars, manages to be as funny as it is jarring

Review: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Neil Stewart reviews Evie Wyld's new book, a dark story of abuse, abduction and monsters that slowly reveals the meaning of its title, complete with its strategic comma

Why I love Dorothy Squires, by Rick Owens

"She has that whisky and cigarettes tone to her voice. She really emotes"

Edna O’Brien on acid, and other adventures

Anne Garvey explains why this literary great, too often dismissed as a 1960s Irish author of chick-lit, is finally having her moment

From the Pet Shop Boys to Pina Bausch | 100 years of The Rite of Spring

"It was pagan. It was punk. It was cool before cool, as a concept, existed. It might not be an outrage today, but it’s a shame that it was made interminable by its style of presentation in Paris"

Philip Glass | The Perfect American

"There’s a lot to love here. But there’s no Disney. None at all. Never in a million years will the Disney estate let Mickey, Donald et al appear in this context, and their absence is peculiar. It’s the Dumbo in the room"