The feckless proletariat are up to their old tricks in this month's collection of spiffy standouts. In Woody Allen's no-nonsense Match Point, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers plays a shifty, socal-climbing Irish ...

When I was young, I enjoyed the romance of the garret. Poverty, or relative poverty, became me. I mastered arcane books and composed ambitious essays in the smallest apartment anybody ever saw in ...

Bored rigid by talk of exchange rates, interest rates and PSBR's? So you should be! The capitalists are always moaning about their figures not adding up but, unfortunately, their system isn't about to ...

Dorian Lynskey seizes on this illuminating coincidence to introduce The Ministry of Truth, his study of Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece. As the American book-buying public evidently ­realised, Conway’s ...