I was completely absorbed by this opera as a sound production — maybe one day I’ll get to see the whole show

Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity

On the least erotic noun in the English language

The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood

Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea

Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep

Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable

Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey

Art that shocks, offends, and amuses has a purpose beyond aesthetic: its existence is a testament to freedom of expression

Christopher Silvester on two extraordinary films from Eastern Europe shown at the London Film Festival