Chekhov
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile