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When did you last experience a boring Sunday afternoon? If you’re over 16, probably not since you were last 16…
Interest-free credit
When did you last experience a boring Sunday afternoon? If you’re over 16, probably not since you were last 16…
Faulty ignition
Apart from the next Game of Thrones, there’s nothing I’ve been looking forward to quite as much as The Grand…
About a boy
Indignation is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel and amazingly, for an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel —…
Serious concerns
It’s funny, isn’t it, how a dust jacket on a book can draw you to it from the other end…
Stuck on stucco
Whenever the words ‘stucco house’ appear in the newspapers, you can be certain the occupiers have been up to no…
Another fine mess
I wonder why ENO has invested in a new production of Berg’s Lulu, when the previous one, which we first…
Whodunnit
Barbed wire, concrete, razor blades, passports, Bakelite and the sewage system are all crucial to the way we live now…
Old stamping ground
If I tell you that on Monday there was an hour-long documentary about the history of stamp-collecting, then you probably…
Space oddity
One of David Bowie’s last works, Lazarus, is a musical based on Walter Tevis’s novel The Man Who Fell to…
Rose Byrne at rehearsal
David Mamet has a birthday next week; he’ll be turning 69. Quite a grand old man of American letters. Playwright…
Where the wild things are
‘What is man, that thou art mindful of him?’ asks the Psalmist. It’s a good question. God Himself doesn’t give…
Stuck on stucco
Whenever the words ‘stucco house’ appear in the newspapers, you can be certain the occupiers have been up to no…
Where the wild things are
‘What is man, that thou art mindful of him?’ asks the Psalmist. It’s a good question. God Himself doesn’t give…
About a boy
Indignation is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel and amazingly, for an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel —…
Serious concerns
It’s funny, isn’t it, how a dust jacket on a book can draw you to it from the other end…
Space oddity
One of David Bowie’s last works, Lazarus, is a musical based on Walter Tevis’s novel The Man Who Fell to…
Space oddity
One of David Bowie’s last works, Lazarus, is a musical based on Walter Tevis’s novel The Man Who Fell to…
Another fine mess
I wonder why ENO has invested in a new production of Berg’s Lulu, when the previous one, which we first…
Another fine mess
I wonder why ENO has invested in a new production of Berg’s Lulu, when the previous one, which we first…
Whodunnit
Barbed wire, concrete, razor blades, passports, Bakelite and the sewage system are all crucial to the way we live now…
Whodunnit
Barbed wire, concrete, razor blades, passports, Bakelite and the sewage system are all crucial to the way we live now…
Old stamping ground
If I tell you that on Monday there was an hour-long documentary about the history of stamp-collecting, then you probably…
Brief encounters
When Mozart was commissioned to write an opera for the coronation of Emperor Leopold II, he produced La clemenza di…
Country music
There was something unexpectedly moving about hearing not just one but several renditions of the somewhat naive and rose-tinted but…
