Joining the Club

15 August 2016 London My review of A Question of Upbringing, the first Anthony Powell’s twelve-volume novel series A Dance … More

Letter to a Brexiteer

Dear Lizzie It was certainly a shock, reading on Facebook that you’d voted for Brexit. A mutual friend told me … More

It Is So Ordered

27 June 2015 Moncontour, Poitou-Charentes, France There aren’t many mornings where I wake up crying. This morning was one of them. On … More

Filmucopia Part III: National Gallery

12 October 2014 London Frederick Wiseman’s wonderful documentary National Gallery pays tribute to and quietly critiques one of the UK’s cultural … More

Filmucopia Part I: No Place Like Home

10 October 2014 London It’s London Film Festival time. I review Rolf de Heer’s stirring film Charlie’s Country, and the fun … More

Where The Wild Things Were

12 September 2014 London This month, Allen Hall Theatre, my university’s resident theatre teaching and performance space, celebrates its centenary. … More

We Don’t Need Another Hero

15 July 2014 London Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe becomes the latest sports celebrity to admit he’s gay. But is this … More

Gay Pride and Gefiltefish

28 June 2014 London An unconventional Gay Pride weekend in London, involving fried fish balls in Hampstead. It’s Gay Pride … More

Once When We Were In Love

26 June 2014 London In which I see the charming and quietly heartbreaking Once: the Musical and weep like a child for … More

He Said, She Said

19 June 2014 London The First Stone, Helen Garner’s analysis of a 1992 sexual harassment case at an Australian university, … More