This is certainly not an emotionally uplifting read, yet Atwood’s tale will leave you contemplating whether aspects of Gilead already exist in our modern society?

An introduction to the theatre scene in Manchester

Tory, Gaz Morris, discusses whether ‘Red Ed’ offers a threat to the Conservatives.

In times of bitter rejection or ultimate betrayal, nothing is more satisfying than imagining the punishment you dream to deal your cold-blooded nemesis.

Doctor Faustus, Royal Exchange, 10th September 2010 When Robert Johnson went to the crossroads to sell his soul to the devil, he did so in exchange for an awesome mastery of the guitar and revolutionised the blues forever more. The tale of Faust recounts how he did the same thing in his quest for knowledge […]

Etiquette expert William Hanson discusses the banes of being an etiquette consultant in the dating game.

Cooper’s Jump!, pulls to the front of the reader’s mind the likes of Francis Drake and Julian Fellowes, as she creates a world revolving around equine activity and class-climbers.

Parade, The Lowry, 27th – 28 Any members of the audience taking their seats as the cast broke into ‘The Old Red Hills of Home’ would have thought that they had arrived two hours late for the evening’s performance. The opening chorus of Parade possessed all the qualities of a number preceding a curtain call […]

Sarah McCulloch investigates our relationship with Mephodrone, until recently the drug du jour among many students, and asks whether our entire debate on the use of legal and illegal drug use needs to change.

An online survey of the Top Five female authors

Challenge your perception of reality at the Abandon Normal Devices Festival.

Terry Pratchett is a man of many thousands of words, hundreds of which are wittily twisted into the nonsensical phrases that make up the fictional Discworld series, and fifty-plus other collaborations that span across a 30 year career as a novelist.

It has been eight years since Life of Pi was published to international critical acclaim, and won the 2002 Man Booker Prize.

Exclusive interview with the new Chair for the Drama Society 2010-2011

a celebrated account of one woman diving head first into indulgence, enlightenment and spirituality – it’s a grown up gap year.

Not one for the fainthearted, Yoko Ogawa explores exploitative sexual politics and power relations in her newest novel Hotel Iris.

Preview of the Broadway musical “Rent”, being performed at the RNCM by South Manchester Amateur Operatic Society.

Men are from mars and women are from Harrods?

Kiran Desai’s 2006 award winning novel The Inheritance of Loss

The Edinburgh Fringe – what it is, who it’s for, and one Manchester University student’s experience of it.