Sound and vision
Quite what it was that was so spellbinding about a quartet of middle-aged German blokes in skintight bodysuits standing at…
Hall of mirrors
At first glance, Holy Motors is all about one astonishing performance — or several, depending on how you look at…
A hero of folk
‘This Machine Kills Fascists’ was the ambitious slogan that Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) painted on his guitars. By fascists he meant…
Hall of mirrors
At first glance, Holy Motors is all about one astonishing performance — or several, depending on how you look at…
From Russia with love
If you want to know what’s so great about John Cranko’s choreography, look at the opening phrase of the final…
A hero of folk
‘This Machine Kills Fascists’ was the ambitious slogan that Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) painted on his guitars. By fascists he meant…
Time Travel
Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory, until 9 March) lets you escape the winter cold to a showbiz party…
Mauvais goût
It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…
Down to a T
There are normally three problems with reviews of books which, like This is the Way by Gavin Corbett (Fourth Estate,…
Time Travel
Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory, until 9 March) lets you escape the winter cold to a showbiz party…
Mauvais goût
It was dinner at a prize-winning hotel in Burgundy. I looked, stupefied, at an awkward arrangement of trapezoidal plates, unaccommodating…
Down to a T
There are normally three problems with reviews of books which, like This is the Way by Gavin Corbett (Fourth Estate,…
A tale of HS2 cities
The route was unveiled this week for phase two of HS2 — and those who got hot under the collar…
A tale of HS2 cities
The route was unveiled this week for phase two of HS2 — and those who got hot under the collar…
The shock of the old
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…
Wild life
Rift Valley ‘I’ve got a brilliant idea,’ said Jools on the phone, his voice characteristically rising like a commentator on…
The shock of the old
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…
Growing old disgracefully
Virginia Ironside’s novel, No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses (Quercus £14.99) about a 65-year-old granny who belongs to a local…
Why Rubens should go
The Blow family has had its disasters. There has been madness, murder and suicides. But before those mishaps there was…
Growing old disgracefully
Virginia Ironside’s novel, No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses (Quercus £14.99) about a 65-year-old granny who belongs to a local…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
The making of a myth
When John Kelly was transported from Tipperary to Tasmania in 1841, for stealing pigs, he couldn’t have imagined that 170…
Knowing your onions
Having fried your leeks in butter, form them into a poultice and apply it to your backside. No, not Heston…
The Unborn
mooch about and waste time starting things they’ll never finish. The next world is nothing to them but shadows, some…
The Unborn
mooch about and waste time starting things they’ll never finish. The next world is nothing to them but shadows, some…
