Cate Blanchett
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
