The man behind the Chanel
In a flurry of the emotional days before my A2 summer exams, my friend Zach and I decided to book a tightly budgeted trip to Paris, fashion capital of Europe
Up in the Air
If you hadn’t seen Juno, you might be forgiven for thinking that writer/director Jason Reitman likes nothing more than getting up, close and personal with people we love to hate
A Prophet
A Prophet is one of those films the Press likes to laude with confusing hyperbolic descriptions: ‘The-Godfather-meets-Shawshank Redemption-via-La-Haine’
Q&A: Katherine Alexander
Katherine Alexander is the talk of the town with her eye-catching hand made cuffs
The Sorrow and the Pity
Near the beginning of this documentary about the German occupation of France, a bourgeois pharmacist tells director Marcel Ophüls that rather than being moved to courage in the face of the German forces, elicited instead were the emotions of sorrow and pity.
Simon Armitage
The Yorkshire writer talks to Laura Connor about his ‘true’ calling as a poet, and what influences lie behind his new book
The danger behind legal highs
Everyone knows that banned drugs are dangerous, but what about the legal ones? Ben Gascoyne explores substances which remain within the letter of the law
The blood behind the boudoir
Charlotte Hogarth-Jones talks to an extreme BDSM follower about prostitution, adolescent abuse, and growing up in a ‘kink’ family
A maverick with a lens
Mia de Graaf talks to John Hillcoat about the production of his just released film The Road and questions the relationship between passion and commerce
Henry James Foy
“Is romance dead?” A’s mother shatters my Sunday morning fuzziness with this bolt from the blue. I reach for my coffee and attempt to hide myself in the Sunday Times Style Magazine. A’s answer isn’t forthcoming either. Perhaps this is a family ritual – a hangover punishment, say. Or perhaps she’s just being flippant. I [...]
The invisible man who changed the world
Henry James Foy meets Michael Young, the York Graduate whose modest vision, courage and diplomatic brilliance brought an end to apartheid in South Africa
Social pariah: Charlotte Hogarth-Jones
And WHO is in charge of THIS?” booms an angry looking man from Nottingham Trent, thrusting a pristine copy of my first edition into the frightened faces of the front row
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