Billed as ‘a year of imagination and possibility’ to mark the 500th anniversary of More’s Utopia, 2016 didn’t work out that way. 2017, the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, is another opportunity.
Notes on a five-and-a-half hour silent movie at the Edinburgh Filmhouse: a restored BFI version of Abel Gance’s 1927 epic Napoleon, telling the story of the general’s early years.
Here are 10 books I particularly appreciated this year – though not necessarily published in 2016 – listed in alphabetical order.
Arrival fondly imagines a universal language that, once understood, facilitates spiritual awakening, a kind of Zen enlightenment that opens the way for a new era of peace.
Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway widens his focus to the world’s religions in a new book exploring the history of faith.
How can political progressives who have dedicated their careers to principled opposition to racism possibly be guilty of anti-Semitism. I review a new book that attempts an answer.
Nicolas Roeg’s film has many memorable scenes and images that entangle themselves in the mind, and is electrified by a charismatic lead performance by David Bowie. But the director’s habitual desire to shock through the shoehorning of several gratuitous scenes into his movie adds nothing to Tevis’ subtle tale.