Edinburgh festival 2013The best (and worst) of the Edinburgh fringe festival 2013From dancing polythene to radical reinventions and feminist rage … as the dust settles on the Edinburgh festival, our critics name the highlights – and lowlights – of this year's fringeClothes? Who needs clothes?No standup show was complete at this year's Edinburgh fringe, it seemed, without a sprinkling of nudity. Tasmanian comic Hannah Gadsby shed her garments to make a point about her body image. Read More...
The ObserverThrillersReviewThe rising waters of the Mississippi prove a perfect backdrop for Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly's dark, prohibition-era taleHobnob Landing, a town of 3,000-odd people "nestled where the Mississippi doubled back on itself like a black racer fixing to bite its tail", is about to go under water: it's 1927, the river is bursting its banks after months of rain, and the levee, a giant wall of earth 30ft high, is about to break. Read More...