The Critics
Savour the silence
The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise
Raging irritants
Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway
Out of Africa
To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
Auntie Nazi League
It’s BBC actors and comedy stars who’ve made the corporation great over the years — not two-a-penny journalists
Original sin
Robert Thicknesse on the woes of modern, British opera
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
Full of Eastern promise
Out with the old, in with the new: Michael Prodger on art collection trends
Catholic tastes
Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions
Vienna’s hapless missing link
Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed