February 2026, including Taupe, Henri Texier, Mark Turner, McCoy Tyner and Various: Cuba Cha Cha Chá // Editor's pick: Taupe ...

On “Patternmaster”, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner delivers one of the most compelling statements of his ECM years – an album of bracing intelligence, spiritual inquiry and deeply internalised swing.

One of the best fiction books of 2015, V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic spawned a string of bestselling fantasy novels and now includes a comic book prequel series and a sequel series that was ...

The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances varying ...

Finding the perfect chokes for duck hunting isn’t all that difficult. It can be a little more involved than using the modified choke that came with your new shotgun. Not to say that choke won’t work ...

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Pulling Pushing Dragging, 2024, mineral colour, calligraphy ink on silk, 110 x 159 cm. Photo: Damian Griffiths. © the artist. Courtesy the ...

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for ...

It can feel like there’s a certain amount of voodoo involved in picking the best choke for duck hunting. This is because there are so many variables at work. Starting with the gear, there’s your gun ...