Aging has been a preoccupation of David Bowie since the beginning of his career. It's a metamorphosis much slower than his lightning quick development in the 1970s, from Ziggy to Thin White...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/mies-julie.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 16:28:50 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/mies-julie.aspx

Yael Farber, based on August Strindberg's Miss Julie
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, until May 19

It's probably a sign of progress when everyday life no longer furnishes dramatists ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/david-bowie-is.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 16:24:02 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/david-bowie-is.aspx

V&A; Until August 11

Halfway through David Bowie Is we're treated to a full length showing of his 1973 'Life on Mars?' video. In it, Bowie wears an ice-blue suit designed by Fredd...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/borgen.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 16:17:52 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/borgen.aspx

Arrow Films, DVD; Certificate 15; 580mins

The second season of Borgen, the latest highbrow Scandinavian drama on BBC4, has been released on DVD, under the 'Nordic Noir' label. Danish prime minster Birgitte Nyborg, played by Sidse ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-reluctant-fundamentalist.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 13:01:54 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-reluctant-fundamentalist.aspx

Directed by Mira Nair; Certificate tbc;  128 mins.

A foreign professor is kidnapped on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan; the terrorist extremists behind this act threaten his exec...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/poem/all-the-maps-of-russia-stop-at-moscow.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:39 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/poem/all-the-maps-of-russia-stop-at-moscow.aspxbut home lies somewhere beyond, under

the blue bowl of sky, ceramic, unglazed.

I've heard tell of vast forests, immense fields,

black soil. But there are no maps, and

my only clue is a mustard seed wrapped

in cabbage-leaf comp...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/what-has-nature-ever-done-for-us-how-money-really-does-grow-on-trees.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:38 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/what-has-nature-ever-done-for-us-how-money-really-does-grow-on-trees.aspxTony Juniper
Profile Books 
336pp

What has nature ever done for us? 'More than most of us imagine' is the persuasive argume...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/events/events.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:38 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/events/events.aspxJohn Robinson's Honest to God was a publishing sensation 50 years ago, selling a million copies in 1963. The dominant theory of the book is the idea that having rejected the idea of 'God up there', modern secular people also needed to recognize that the idea of 'God out there' is also an outdated simplificat...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/life-after-life.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:37 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/life-after-life.aspxKate Atkinson
Doubleday
477pp

In 1910 Ursula Todd dies at birth when the umbilical cord is wrapped round her neck; aged four when she paddles too far ...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-silence-of-animals-on-progress-and-other-modern-myths.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:37 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-silence-of-animals-on-progress-and-other-modern-myths.aspxJohn Gray
Allen Lane
240pp

Is there an irony in publishing a sequel to a book about the myth of progress? The sticker on my copy of The Silence of Animals, the lat...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-joy-of-x-a-guided-tour-of-mathematics,-from-one-to-infinity.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:37 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-joy-of-x-a-guided-tour-of-mathematics,-from-one-to-infinity.aspxSteven Strogatz
Atlantic Books
336pp

There is a joke concerning a sociologist, a physicist and a mathematician on a train crossing the border into Scotland which ends with the followi...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/film-round-up.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:36 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/film-round-up.aspxWhile the reboot of horror classic Evil Dead (18; 91 mins) should satisfy undemanding audiences, it lacks the original's wit and inventiveness and plays out as just another routine, cabin-in-the-woods zo...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/spring-breakers.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:36 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/spring-breakers.aspx

Directed by Harmony Korine; Certificate 18;  92 mins.

I once interviewed Harmony Korine, writer-director of Spring Breakers, then promoting his Trash Humpers,  a Nashville...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-bell-jar.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:36 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-bell-jar.aspxSylvia Plath

Faber and Faber
240pp

Faber's 50th anniversary republication of Sylvia Plath's semi-aut...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-childhood-of-jesus.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:36 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/reviews/the-childhood-of-jesus.aspx

JM Coetzee
Harvill Secker
277pp

Stop me if you've heard this one before. An uncannily gifted bu...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/icons/no-140-the-polar-bear.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:35 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/icons/no-140-the-polar-bear.aspxA polar bear walks into a bar, and nods to the horse who's already enjoying a drink. 'What can I get you?' asks the barman. 'I'd like a pint of bitter,' says thepolar bear, 'and…'

A long silence follows.

'…a packet of nut...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/high-profile/working-title.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:34 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/high-profile/working-title.aspxThe impact of his first book, Chavs,¹ in 2011 established Owen Jones as an insistent and influential new voice on the traditional left. Third Way looked him up at the British Library.

...]]>http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/features/freedom-on-wheels.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:33 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/features/freedom-on-wheels.aspxCould it be that disability has more to do with our preconceptions of people than their actual impairments? When Nicola Sleap decided to use a wheelchair, her horizons broadened in ways she hadn't predicted. Could church and society take a similar view?

http://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/features/practical-mystics.aspxMon, 22 Apr 2013 11:07:33 GMThttp://www.thirdwaymagazine.co.uk/editions/may-2013/features/practical-mystics.aspxHow do we live for God? Is faithfulness best expressed inwardly, through prayer, or outwardly by trying to build the Kingdom on earth? Jennifer Kavanagh explores the necessary balance between action and contemplation.