beauty and the beast

Melodramatic body-horror – but I don’t regret seeing it: A Different Man reviewed

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is ‘a darkly comic psychological thriller’ that plays like an inverted Beauty and the Beast.…

The first fairy stories were never intended for children

15 January 2022 9:00 am

Philip Hensher explores the origins of fairy tales

Let’s swap murders: Amanda Craig’s The Golden Rule reviewed

4 July 2020 9:00 am

It has been three years since Amanda Craig’s previous novel, The Lie of the Land, the story of a foundering…