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A formidable cast excels in an ingenious, small-scale production of Britten’s ghostly chamber opera; Red Riding Hood clashes with a warbling witch. Plus, a night in with the other Mendelssohn

Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again?

In his final work for Netflix, Mike Flanagan and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are inventing a new kind of television adaptation.

Examining the psychological demands that liberalism imposes on the modern citizen

Fresh six-string inspiration from Joe Bonamassa, Voice of Baceprot, Cory Wong, Alice Cooper, Rivers of Nihil, Duff McKagan and oh so many more

The American author talks about growing up queer in a family of ‘wolves’, poverty and class in the US, and the 19th-century writers who inspired his latest novel

Linguistically commodious and panoramically plotted, Wright’s 700-page monster would have given Henry James a heart attack – but it has so much to say

Henry James, was the fifth of two boys and three girls, born through caesarean section on Sunday, before sadly passing away at three days old

Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it seems, is past.

“Like most people I read a book or two on holiday,” says Stuart, a character in Julian Barnes’ 1991 novel Talking it Over. He does not have time for recreational reading; it must wait until he is at leisure. His best friend, the erudite but erratically employed Oliver, derides this…

From schoolboy trips to booze-ups with New York garbage men, the novelist recalls how he fell for the fabulous world of opera – and managed to break in, with a staging of his book about Henry James