Imagine the scene. It's a cold February day and novelist Andrew O'Hagan, new notebooks and a tape-recorder in his bag, has traipsed up through dank Norfolk fields to meet the man whose autobiography he has agreed to write. His subject is Julian Assange, who has taken to country life... more
Literacy campaign: The Evening Standard's Get London Reading campaign has smashed through the £100,000 barrier thanks to Londoners' outstanding generosity... more
Heavyweight and affluent of the international art-buying world poured through the gates of a Regent’s Park tent this morning as the annual Frieze Art Fair got underway... more
Those of us who love London must feel ashamed this week. It is the world's most interesting city, a place of uncommon delights, yet it has been shown by an influential report to have one of the most delinquent attitudes in Europe towards waste... more
Sacha Baron Cohen's new comic creation, the latest instalment from Harry Potter at Hogwarts and adventures in the land of lizard men - here is our guide to the biggest movies of the season... more
Ian McDiarmid’s misguided stage adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s poignant novel Be Near Me at the Donmar Warehouse is greatly diminished by cutting out crucial figures from the book.... more
After the triumphant opening of his Twelfth Night last night, the Donmar’s artistic director tells how the play has been as good as therapy for him... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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