As The Critic enters into the podcasting business, Dominic Green surveys the world of motivational, self-affirming podcasts

As the new Emma comes to cinema screens, Alexander Larman considers the innumerable Austen remakes over the past 25 years

75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities

Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards

Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already

Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub

Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong

Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots

In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem

The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”