Seabird, London: We eat some nice things, but want never to return restaurant review
Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewAn infuriating meal in a south London hotel is a reminder that skill in the kitchen is not the only ingredient needed to make a good restaurant
Seabird, The Hoxton, Southwark, 40 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 (020 7903 3050). Small plates £10-£18; mains £16-£40; desserts £6-£7; wines from £28
There are many delicious smells to encounter in a restaurant dining room. Flaming lamp oil is not one of them.
Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by
Philosophy booksFrom Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life
The thing that separates human beings from other animals is our extraordinary capacity for complex, abstract thought. This is what has given rise to our diverse cultures, our scientific achievements, our ability to envisage the future and, hopefully, make it better than what has gone before. But our imperfect minds have also generated terrible mistakes and dangerous ideologies.
We came to thank him and say goodbye: mourners bury young Briton in quiet, jittery Jerusalem |
Israel This article is more than 3 months old‘We came to thank him and say goodbye’: mourners bury young Briton in quiet, jittery JerusalemThis article is more than 3 months oldAs Nathanel Young, 20, was buried, the streets of the divided city remained uneasily empty with both sides fearing reprisals
Israel and Hamas at war – live updates On a hillside in Jerusalem, hundreds of people stood in near silence at the funeral of a “lone soldier”.
Derren Brown: Showman review a performance that will blow your mind
MagicReviewApollo theatre, London
The veteran illusionist outdoes himself with an evening of bewildering trickery that holds a mirror to our deepest feelings
Having followed his stage work for years, I find it hard to take a word Derren Brown says seriously. That’s not a criticism: if his lips are moving, I assume there’s devious misdirection afoot, or some hokum designed to dramatise the next feat of jaw-dropping magic and mesmerism. But my scepticism makes things tricky when Brown moves into the territory of real feeling: love, loss, bereavement.
El Chapo's lair: the secluded house at the heart of Mexico's drug war
Joaquín 'El Chapo' GuzmánJoaquín Guzmán was finally cornered in an affluent part of Los Mochis and the scene of the bloody shootout holds portents for the future of the narcotics trade
The transformation of the house on the corner of Río Quelite street and Jiquilpan boulevard, in the affluent Las Palmas quarter of Los Mochis on Mexico’s Pacific coast, intrigued the neighbours.
A Mormon couple who had lived there sold and left about two years ago, leaving it in the hands of an unknown buyer who did not move in but started making changes.
Ever had a weirdly intense friendship? Tommi Parrishs latest book is for you
Comics and graphic novelsThe Australian artist and author spent three years hand-painting Men I Trust, a graphic novel about a relationship that becomes uncomfortably ambiguous
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Men I Trust opens with a group addiction therapy session in progress. Characters step forward to share their stories: a wife’s secret drinking; an alcoholic father. Eliza shares hers: she’s five years sober, recently separated from her child’s father and trying to figure it all out in the shadow of her own mother’s alcoholism.
Good review David Tennant is magnificent in chilling drama
TheatreReviewHarold Pinter theatre, London
Revived with a superb cast, CP Taylor’s play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream
There is an instructive early scene in CP Taylor’s play about Germany’s slide into nazism when we hear of the friendship between Beethoven and Goethe, which ended when the composer, living in penury, wrote a begging letter to Goethe, who never responded. Professor Halder (David Tennant), a German academic, recounts this betrayal to his Jewish best friend, Maurice (Elliot Levey), in outraged tones, yet it is he who betrays his friend in the most heinous of ways.
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm review
The ObserverTrue crime booksReviewJanet Malcolm's pitiless examination of a murder trial creates a nagging sense of uneaseThere are only two writers whose work I can say I have read in its entirety. The first is Jane Austen. The second is Janet Malcolm, who is a staff writer at the New Yorker, and whose subjects have included, over the years, psychoanalysis ("the impossible profession"), Sylvia Plath, Anton Chekhov and Gertrude Stein. Malcolm's masterpiece, though, is The Journalist and the Murderer, a brilliant and pitiless examination of journalistic ethics built around the lawsuit filed by Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted killer, against Joe McGinniss, author of a book about his crimes.
Step away from the lager: wines that go with curry
Fiona Beckett on drinksWineReviewLots of white wines can handle a bit of spice, or how about a refreshing lassi or G&T instead?
The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. It’s harder to get someone to accept that lager is not the only thing to drink with a curry than it appears to be for the government to tell the truth about, well, almost anything, so if that’s you, please don’t read on.
The best way to label garden plants
GardensPlastic, wood, slate or metal? Alys Fowler has the answer
Labels matter. Particularly when you are confronting a tray of compost or a faint line scratched out in the soil. You may believe you will remember what you planted, but you won’t. Or at least you might at the beginning of the season, or for the first few trays, but once spring gets a hold and every week there’s something new to sow, then one row quickly fades into the next.