Jessica Duchen
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Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Between 1991 to 2012, Belorussian journalist and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich travelled the countries that constituted the former USSR...
The Accident, Series Finale, Channel 4 review - ambitious mi...
Channel 4’s The Accident closed with a bang and a...
Touching the Void, Duke of York's Theatre review - not...
Theatre can touch thousands of lives. But can it compete with the success of a bestselling book? First published in 1988, mountaineer Joe Simpson'...
Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, Episode Three, BBC Four review...
Once again the whodunit becomes the whoforgedit in the newest installment of the Britain’s Lost Masterpieces series. Host and...
Wegener, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review – on the revolutionary ro...
For better or worse, because of Visconti’s classic film the Adagietto of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony now inevitably means Venice in its gloomiest...
Marriage Story review - superior weepie
Forty years after the classic, multi-Oscar winning Kramer v Kramer comes another...
Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre review - a lavish but ol...
It’s been 15 years since Cameron Mackintosh’s stage musical...
Last Christmas review - for the stocking, not the tree
Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke stars in this awkward but sweet...
CD: Celine Dion - Courage
Of 2019’s pop culture phenomena, the critical reappraisal of Céline Dion as an international treasure is one of the...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 54: The Beatles, Prince, Kid Acne, Nirv...
Without further ado, slightly delayed by the sheer volume of releases at this year time of year, here is the latest edition of theartsdesk...