Full Coverage: Culture

19.11.2009 A Ghost Forest from Ghana is in Trafalgar Square before it moves to Copenhagen for the international climate change conference.

18.11.2009 The Copenhagen climate change negotiations are a focus not just for talks and discussions but also for artists: exhibitions on the topic include Earth: Art of a changing world, which runs 3 December to 31 January at the Royal Academy in Picadilly.

09.11.2009 There are good grounds for pessimism on prospects for saving the rainforests. But the link with climate change creates new hope that two environmental calamities can be addressed together.

28.10.2009 What Fatima Did… was adopt the veil, to the amazement of her teenage classmates and friends. This sharp, fast-moving play shows what happened next.

19.10.2009 “Something bad happened when Lilli was a baby. Something she should have been protected from. But she’s not a baby anymore and it’s time to understand that actions have consequences.” - iceandfire takes its latest play for young people to schools around London.

09.10.2009 Good Hair, the award-winning documentary co-written and produced by Chris Rock, opens this year's BFM International Film Festival.

08.10.2009 At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. A new play takes the London stage.

28.09.2009 Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to get my vote for book of the year. The publishers have also taken trouble with old-fashioned virtues of design.

17.08.2009 Adapting to a warmer climate in the UK brings the promise of Mediterranean pleasures. Whilst poor countries will struggle with food production, we can look forward to consuming more of it outdoors.

31.07.2009 Loss and Liberty, a new collection of ceramic artworks and poems produced by offenders at Wandsworth Prison, is on display in the Docklands Museum's London Sugar & Slavery gallery.

26.07.2009 Profane, rude, blasphemous, direct, mischievous - Kureishi's back: “There are times when we can be too respectful to one another and that can be dangerous.”

29.06.2009 The new UK climate projections published by the Met Office Hadley Centre are a valuable risk management tool for policymakers. But they also speak volumes about the global failure to protect poor countries from climate change.

08.03.2009 William Dalrymple's book review draws interesting parallels between post-independence land reform in India and Pakistan and the contrasting path of modern literature in the two countries. Financial Times

07.03.2009 “In Afghanistan”, says the ad for Afghan Star, “you risk your life to sing.”

02.03.2009 David Hare will perform his own work, Wall, drawing on his trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, at the Royal Court on 12-14 March.

27.02.2009 England People Very Nice is designedly not very nice. Funny, sharp, chaotic, focused; but not very nice.

30.01.2009 England People Very Nice is a journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration are anything but new.

19.01.2009 Setting the final scene of Slumdog Millionaire in Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus unwittingly links the film with the recent terrorism outrage. Can the "war on terror" hope to end as happily as the film?

05.01.2009 Syria has a thriving industry in the design and manufacture of imaginative women's lingerie. A new book "The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie" reveals much about women's freedom in the Arab world.

29.10.2008 Emteaz Hussain says she ran away and took shelter in a women’s refuge when she was 16, so it’s not surprising that the central characters in her first play, Sweet Cider, are two young British Asian women who have run away from home.