19 June 2014 London The First Stone, Helen Garner’s analysis of a 1992 sexual harassment case at an Australian university,…
O Mother, Wherefore Art Thou?
5 May 2014 London Colm Tóibín’s electrifying novella The Testament of Mary reimagines the Gospels from Mary’s point of view. The stage version,…
The Unilluminated
28 April 2014 London Eleanor Catton’s Booker Prize winning novel The Luminaries is an impressive achievement. But despite elegant writing…
Anne Frank Remembered
20 April 2014 Amsterdam, The Netherlands A visit to the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is an unforgettable experience –…
My Big Fat Gay Buddhist Passover
15 April 2014 London A night at an unconventional Passover Seder dinner involving Egyptian Buddhists, chicken soup and more matzo…
Salò Revisited
9 April 2014 London Nearly forty years since its release, Pasolini’s film Salò, based on Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom,…
O Blue Come Forth
8 April 2014 London Derek Jarman’s final film, the exquisite Blue, gets a glorious re-screening in London’s IMAX cinema. I first…
Rhapsody in Blue
7 April 2014 London Passionate, heart-breaking and occasionally ridiculous, Abdellatif Kechiche’s wonderful film Blue Is the Warmest Colour explodes onto…
The Long Walk to the Altar
30 March 2014 London As same-sex marriage becomes legal in the United Kingdom, is it time for LGBT people to stop thinking…
Remembering The Two Fat Ladies
25 March 2014 London The recent death of Clarissa Dickson Wright, the surviving member of the Two Fat Ladies TV…
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