Festivals

Felicity Ward was ugly as a child. She was also intelligent and geeky, and now gives us an account of what it was like for her to be afflicted with all of th... Read more »

The bulk of Todd Womack’s material comes from his travels around South America. He has good stories and for the most part they are well told - I find m... Read more »

Six young comedians populate Tom Basden's brilliant new play, Party. But as Lyle Brennan finds out, they are part of a new comedy organisation, the Invisible Dot, which might just be as interesting, and ultimately elusive, as the fictional group Read more »

Talks on the environment and the economy were depressing; a grumpy poet showed his sentimental side, and the ever first European Moth was bewildering - Fest casts its eye over the latest from the still-rainy Book Festival Read more »

Undisputed king of the New Yorker and America's campest literary idol, David Sedaris treated Charlotte Square to two unpublished stories. Here we publish some highlights from the riotous Q & A that followed Read more »