Interviews with leading figures from the arts
'I let it emerge': an interview with Fiona Benson on the cusp of the TS Eliot Prize announcement
Friday, 20 January 2023
Fiona Benson’s new collection of poems, Ephemeron (Jonathan Cape, 2022), tries to capture those things that are always moving out of grasp.
'Corsage' director Marie Kreutzer: 'Being beautiful is her only currency'
Friday, 30 December 2022
It’s 1877, and Austria’s Empress Elisabeth (Vicky Krieps) is first seen gasping under freezing water, skin blotchy with another extreme treatment to maintain her legendary beauty. Every day she constricts herself in her corset, as she’s constrained as Emperor Franz Joseph’s trophy wife. Nearing the dangerous female age of 40, the corset tightens notch by notch.
latest in today

With the total loss of its Arts Council funding,...
Eliza Carthy has been busy, as she always has. Recording various albums with various artists during the pandemic, her show with her band, The...

I have wanted to visit the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar for many years: the home of Matthias Grünewald’s masterpiece, the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512...

It’s coming up for two years since some of us watched the first three seasons of what’s increasingly coming to seem like television’s greatest...

No work gives its listeners such pleasure on the way to hell (and back) as...

Saint Omer is a psychological and sociological mystery, unpicking the enigma of Laurence (Guslagie Malanda), a French...

It’s good to think that there are some opera productions – not just compositions – that in themselves can have the status of classics. David...

A play’s title can be an almost arbitrary matter – there’s no streetcar but plenty of desire in that one for example...

Yo La Tengo’s new disc would appear to be an homage to the indie ...

The New York Dolls, The Ramones, Suicide, Television, Blondie, The Dictators, The Heartbreakers, The Shirts, Richard Hell and the Voidoids. From...