For Arthur Miller, there were two types of theatre, which he labelled as “Majority” and “Other”. For the Majority, theatre was a form of entertainment,
The few tales Herman Melville told of the land never lose the whiff of brine. Indeed, the author of Moby-Dick was moulded by the sea. It became
Part of poetry’s magic lies in it being a time capsule, with simple lines on a page, “a fragile chariot” according to Emily Dickinson, scudding the
London theatre is currently working out how best to portray Trump and Brexit. The approach varies. Some productions are top-down, the action a riff on
In 1974, Lee Krasner, an outstanding force in abstract expressionism, but generally known as “Mrs Jackson Pollock”, began tearing up a folio of her old
You may be forgiven if JR Ackerley doesn’t ring many bells. He was literary editor of The Listener, the great magazine of the early days
If you believe in first impressions, the Barbican’s AI: More Than Human is disappointing. Start with MakrShakr, the robot bartender showstopper. Two robot arms programmed
The Queen sat in the dark staring at an ultra-violet crucifix, the air awash with the incense of a Soho corner-shop. It was 2004, and
Scandinavia is internationally renowned for its literary heritage. Ibsen and Strindberg are well-known to the popular imagination, as are Kierkegaard and Knausgaard, the Nordic myths
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