Category: 5. Entertainment

Accepting a literary prize in Ohio last year, the novelist Zadie Smith described “feeling somewhat alienated from myself, experiencing myself as a posthumous entity”. Smith is only 50, but there is indeed something of the afterlife about the…

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It is reasonable to have expected more from Down Cemetery Road. Adapted from a novel by Mick Herron, author of the books…

As a teenager, I was very much a “don’t put me down for cardio” girl. At school I would volunteer to be the goalkeeper as it required the least amount of movement. When it came to sports day, if I couldn’t blag a sicknote, I’d…

A new immersive exhibition inspired by the experiences of a Coventry family will explore the impact of South Asian heritage on modern Britain.

Stories That Made Us – Roots, Resilience, Representation, opens on 14 November at Herbert Art Gallery…

The Hunting Party

9pm, U&Alibi
The US crime thriller in which former FBI profiler Rebecca Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) returns to clean up after a secret underground prison explodes. A skin-crawling opening to episode two proves just how terrified…