A Good Read
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
