Arts

Long suffering

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…

Ways of seeing

7 January 2017 9:00 am

‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…

Giving it both barrels

7 January 2017 9:00 am

In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…

Joining the dots

7 January 2017 9:00 am

A new website, radio.garden, lets us browse radio stations across the globe. Nothing new about that. That’s been a key…

Holmes spun

7 January 2017 9:00 am

One of the few intelligent responses from the liberal-left to our radically altered political landscape was an essay published last…

Hedda Garbler

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…

Jim Maxwel

7 January 2017 9:00 am

Two of the ABC’s most admired radio presenters have published books that are perfect holiday reading: Richard Fidler’s Ghost Empire…

Rackham frontispiece: ‘Hey! Up the chimney, Lass! Hey after you!’, from ‘The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels’

Munchkins and mischiefs

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Arthur Rackham shouldn’t have lived in anything as conventional as a house. It should have been a gingerbread cottage, like…

Say a little prayer: Liam Neeson as Father Ferreira in ‘Silence’

Long suffering

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…

‘Salvador Dalí, New York’, 1947, by Irving Penn

Ways of seeing

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…

Kate Duchêne as Juliana, Kyle Soller as Tesman, Ruth Wilson as Hedda, Rafe Spall as Brack and Sinead Matthews as Mrs Elvsted in ‘Hedda Gabler’

Hedda Garbler

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…

Kate Duchêne as Juliana, Kyle Soller as Tesman, Ruth Wilson as Hedda, Rafe Spall as Brack and Sinead Matthews as Mrs Elvsted in ‘Hedda Gabler’

Hedda Garbler

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…

Giving it both barrels

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…

Giving it both barrels

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…

Joining the dots

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

A new website, radio.garden, lets us browse radio stations across the globe. Nothing new about that. That’s been a key…

Joining the dots

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

A new website, radio.garden, lets us browse radio stations across the globe. Nothing new about that. That’s been a key…

Holmes spun

5 January 2017 3:00 pm

One of the few intelligent responses from the liberal-left to our radically altered political landscape was an essay published last…

‘Bolshevik’, 1920, by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev

Back in the USSR

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

For much of 1517 Michelangelo Buonarroti was busy quarrying marble in the mountains near Carrara. From time to time, however,…

Yew and me: Lewis MacDougall, as Conor, and the tree monster

All bark and no bite

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…

Madeleine Worrall as Wendy in the Olivier’s post-truth ‘Peter Pan’

Deplorable entertainment

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…

Madeleine Worrall as Wendy in the Olivier’s post-truth ‘Peter Pan’

Deplorable entertainment

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…

Chance would be a fine thing

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

It’s been a turbulent year, and not just in the outside world. Inside radio, digital is changing not just when…

Chance would be a fine thing

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

It’s been a turbulent year, and not just in the outside world. Inside radio, digital is changing not just when…

Weird and wonderful

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

As you’ve probably noticed, TV critics spend a lot of their time trying to identify which other programmes the one…

Back in the USSR

29 December 2016 3:00 pm

For much of 1517 Michelangelo Buonarroti was busy quarrying marble in the mountains near Carrara. From time to time, however,…