“What’s worse, looking jealous or crazy? The National Theatre’s Cleopatra is both.”
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Review: The Old Vic’s Sylvia
The Old Vic’s show Sylvia reveals how the Pankhursts were stubborn, ruthless hypocritical - and successful.
Saturday Review: Love Labour’s Lost
Love's Labour's Lost, Cold War, Black Earth Rising, Pat Barker, Surreal Science, Saturday Review - BBC Radio 4
Review: Yuval Noah Harari
What do we have left to believe in? One of the answers, although Yuval Harari does not provide it, is gurus, of which we have created a new class, each individually tailored to our needs.on Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Politics Of Weight
We can’t fight oppression until we accept that weight and height affect how we’re treated
Jordan Peterson and the Rise of the Cargo Cult Intellectual
Jordan Peterson and the rise of the Cargo Cult Intellectual.(Photo: Phil Fisk for the Guardian)
Review: The Writer, Almeida Theatre
“The Writer at the Almeida tries to have its meaning-cake and eat it.”
How Alex Garland’s Annihilation Broke the Rules
How Alex Garland’s Annihilation broke the rules.
Review: Girls And Boys, Royal Court
“In an industry convulsed by a feminist reckoning, I was left wondering if a female playwright would have dared to write lines as starkly confrontational as the narrator’s conclusion: “We didn’t create society for men. We created it to stop men.” - Girls And Boys at the Royal...
Review: Black Panther
Why Black Panther is the smartest political movie of the last 12 months.