The Critics
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story