With the epic Lord of the Dance show tapping its way into Abu Dhabi, Melati Jay takes a look at the steps it took to get here
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Investing in art
Love art? Loaded? Then you won’t just want to view art, you’ll want to own it. Murray Garrard sits down with Johannes Glas, of the Middle Eastern Fine Art Fund, to find out how to invest
Jakob Dylan music review
On his second solo album since the Wallflowers began living up to their name
Ditch the diet for a massage
Can Lipomassage succeed where others have failed? We try it out…
New Pornographers music review
Critical consensus be damned: 2007’s Challengers did little for me and neither did Carl Newman’s 2009 solo album Get Guilty
Why the recession taught us nothing
Novelist John Lanchester reveals how his new book, Whoops!, breaks down barriers between the financial sector and the rest of us
So Much for That Lionel Shriver book review
Reading Lionel Shriver’s latest novel feels like being caught in the middle of a guerrilla war
The Futureheads interview
Sunderland’s most delightful – and lankiest – band return with their fourth album, Chaos, a collection of spry harmonies and frenetic, bop-tastic post-punk. We chatted to singer/ guitarist Barry Hyde
Parrot and Olivier in America book review
Loosely based on the life and writings of 19th-century French intellectual Alexis de Toqueville, Peter Carey’s new historical novel feels epic in scope
Tristan Gooley book review
A fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the only living person to have found his way solo across the Atlantic by both boat and plane, Gooley is also a man born at least four centuries too late