Sound and vision from the past, present and future
Over the last 30 years Stephen Petronio has established himself as one of the most influential names in American dance. His iconoclastic works fuse eclectic elements of pop culture to often explosive effect. He talked to Civilian about some of his landmark productions
The characters in Chloe Aridjis's second novel Asunder may be stuck – but Neil Stewart finds their story strangely moving
Neil Stewart finds Nicholas Royle's First Novel funny and skewering, and recognises himself in the lead character's obsessive arrangement of books on a shelf by spine colour and design
"She has a terrific answer to the vapid rhetoric of 'In a time where money is short, do you think that money should be spent on a baby’s incubator, or on supporting poetry?'"
50 years on: the global hunt for the missing Doctor Who episodes
"There's a brand new dance..." Dries van Noten, Roland Mouret and Todd Lynn take the floor
"A text that wants to be a piece of music is on a hiding to nothing." Neil Stewart finds much to infuriate and annoy in Kirsty Gunn's new book
"There’s the bleakness, the dark nights and alcohol. We border the same seas and share a similar landscape"
