Books features
My Summer Reading: Ballerina Tamara RojoThursday, 19 August 2010
In the first of a short summer series in which artists and performers tell theartsdesk about what they're reading, ballerina Tamara Rojo talks about the books she's taken with her on holiday, and what she's enjoyed reading. We run short... Read more... |
In Their Own Words: British Novelists, BBC FourMonday, 16 August 2010
Every great novel is a world, and every great novelist responds to and recreates their own time in their own image. Therefore how could a three-part documentary series possibly cover that fertile period in British literature that took in both world... Read more... |
Stoppard returns to TVSaturday, 31 July 2010After a 20-year absence from British TV, Sir Tom Stoppard returns to the small screen next year with his five-part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's novel, Parade's End, on BBC Two. When the BBC approached Stoppard (pictured) with the idea two years... Read more... |
Latitude Festival, SuffolkTuesday, 20 July 2010
So little time, so much stuff to see: that, in essence, is the story of Latitude. Now in its fifth year, this Suffolk festival offers a bewildering cultural cornucopia: music, theatre, dance, cabaret, comedy, circus, literature, poetry, as well as... Read more... |
Leonard Bernstein: West Side StoryTuesday, 25 May 2010
Nigel Simeone’s engaging study of Bernstein’s score of West Side Story could almost be entitled “Collaboration: The Manual”, so deftly does it interweave Bernstein’s originality with the contributions of his stellar team-mates. Jerome Robbins... Read more... |
Forster's Maurice takes a longer journeyTuesday, 30 March 2010
Above the Stag, an unpromising-looking, ominously shuttered gay pub in the ungainly heart of Victoria, a little miracle has been taking place. Word of mouth quickly sold out an intelligent adaptation of E M Forster's great coming-out novel Maurice,... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Oxford: Food, Sex and AmisSunday, 28 March 2010
“If I were a woman I would shag as many of you as had pubes and pricks that gave me sexual pleasure…” No less elderly than he is eminent, Professor Stanley Wells – editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and international authority on the Bard – smiles... Read more... |
The Art Nouveau Dacha, Russia's wooden weekend housesSaturday, 27 March 2010
"Russia has a remarkable and ancient tradition of wooden buildings that dates back to the tenth century, with the remains of Medieval fortresses demonstrating the sophistication of the Nordic wooden construction methods employed across Russia and... Read more... |
Your chance to be a Booker Prize judgeThursday, 25 March 2010Four decades ago, a bunch of good books fell through the net. The year was 1970, in which the Booker Prize – as it was then sponsorlessly known – was inaugurated. The original winner was Bernice Rubens with The Elected Member, but it now seems that... Read more... |
Extract: The Burning LegThursday, 25 March 2010
Walkers, like lovers of literature, are driven by the urge to explore, and writers have blessed their fictional characters with itchy feet since the earliest of narratives. Walks found in novels, short stories and even drama can have a multitude of... Read more... |
Literary giants gather in OxfordWednesday, 17 March 2010The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival kicks off this week with a dazzling line-up of today's literary giants - including Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Rose Tremain, Tracey Chevalier, John Le Carré, Philip Pullman and Sebastian Faulks.... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Galle: Beer and Roving in literary Sri LankaSunday, 28 February 2010
Thursday Never been to the Galle Literary Festival before. Very excited. A long weekend of bona fide book-nerdishness is just what I need – if only to stop me lying on the roof for three days with a book. Also I have one-on-one time lined up... Read more... |
