As it happens, La Fontaine took the tale of the devout vizier and the hypocritical hermit from the French translation of the 13th-century Persian poet Sa’di’s Golestan (‘Rose Garden’), one of the best ...

Lily Fontaine’s friends placed bets on whether her band English Teacher’s debut album would win the 2024 Mercury Prize. The odds were astonishingly good – bookies pegged the post-punk outfit from ...

Frank Fontaine was born in Montreal and raised in New York State and England. He comes from an average dysfunctional family. He began his college education at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.