SEX, VIOLENCE AND RIGOUR
This Season: for his classical music choice, Michael Church selects two productions by David McVicar, including an Olympian one... read more »
FUENTES ON TIME AND SPACE
The great Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died aged 83. Two years ago, he wrote this piece for our series Authors on Museums. “Museums, like lovers," he said, "can lose their charms”, but when he returned to an old haunt in Xalapa, Mexico, he found he was smitten all over again... read more »
RESCUING "ALIEN"
This Season: Nicholas Barber selects "Prometheus", Ridley Scott's bid to save the "Alien" franchise from its sequels... read more »
"TRISHNA" FINDS HARDY IN INDIA
This Season: Nicholas Barber recommends Michael Winterbottom's new film, which sets "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" in contemporary Mumbai...
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RAW, SMART AND DARK
This Season: for our theatre highlight, Emily Bobrow picks the British premiere of "Red Light Winter", a love triangle that's set in Amsterdam...
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MAKE ME SMILE
In the first in our new series, Mood Music, Laura Barton chooses eight songs to lift you up ... read more »
FLORENCE AND THE AMERICANS
This season: Olivia Weinberg welcomes the return of John Singer Sargent and the American impressionists to the Tuscan capital ... read more »
Comment of the moment
quote It's often seemed to me that Shakespeare might well have been a simply brilliant editor as well as a beyond-extraordinary writer