Arts
Holmes spun
One of the few intelligent responses from the liberal-left to our radically altered political landscape was an essay published last…
Hedda Garbler
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
Jim Maxwel
Two of the ABC’s most admired radio presenters have published books that are perfect holiday reading: Richard Fidler’s Ghost Empire…
Munchkins and mischiefs
Arthur Rackham shouldn’t have lived in anything as conventional as a house. It should have been a gingerbread cottage, like…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
Ways of seeing
‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…
Hedda Garbler
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
Hedda Garbler
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
Giving it both barrels
In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…
Giving it both barrels
In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…
Joining the dots
A new website, radio.garden, lets us browse radio stations across the globe. Nothing new about that. That’s been a key…
Joining the dots
A new website, radio.garden, lets us browse radio stations across the globe. Nothing new about that. That’s been a key…
Holmes spun
One of the few intelligent responses from the liberal-left to our radically altered political landscape was an essay published last…
Back in the USSR
For much of 1517 Michelangelo Buonarroti was busy quarrying marble in the mountains near Carrara. From time to time, however,…
All bark and no bite
A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…
Deplorable entertainment
Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…
Deplorable entertainment
Buried Child is a typical Sam Shepard play. The main character, Dodge, is a brain-damaged alcoholic cripple stuck in a…
Chance would be a fine thing
It’s been a turbulent year, and not just in the outside world. Inside radio, digital is changing not just when…
Chance would be a fine thing
It’s been a turbulent year, and not just in the outside world. Inside radio, digital is changing not just when…
Weird and wonderful
As you’ve probably noticed, TV critics spend a lot of their time trying to identify which other programmes the one…
Back in the USSR
For much of 1517 Michelangelo Buonarroti was busy quarrying marble in the mountains near Carrara. From time to time, however,…
All bark and no bite
A Monster Calls is a fantasy drama about a young boy whose life is crap, basically. His mother is sick.…
Apocalypse now
Gerald Barry loved playing organ for Protestants as they allowed him a lie in. Then they found out he wasn’t…
Chance would be a fine thing
It’s been a turbulent year, and not just in the outside world. Inside radio, digital is changing not just when…
Weird and wonderful
As you’ve probably noticed, TV critics spend a lot of their time trying to identify which other programmes the one…
