Judith Flanders
Bio
Judith is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, and Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England. Her new book, The Invention of Murder, was recently published in paperback. She writes on the arts and books for the Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Telegraph and the TLS.
Articles By Judith Flanders
latest in today
Succession, Season Four, Sky Atlantic review - powerful begi...
How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...
Inspiral Carpets, Concorde 2, Brighton review - a raucous ca...
As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....
Tom Dale Company, The Place review - immersive and genre-bus...
With all the talk – and, frankly, fear – around AI and the increasing dominance of the digital world, it’s fascinating to see what dance has to...
Seraphina Madsen: Aurora review - the tarot won’t save us
“There is another world… a way of perceiving that is chaotic and awesome and terrifying,” announces Seraphina Madsen’s cigarillo-smoking,...
Blu-ray: Kamikaze Hearts
Last month’s Storyville: Sex on Screen (available on BBC iPlayer) was a slick, speedy (and repetitive) canter through the...
Great Expectations, BBC One review - modernised, muddied and...
There’s no point in being upset with the writer Steven...
The Dead City, English National Opera review - strong dream...
Is Korngold a second-rank composer with some first-rate ideas? Most performances of the 23-year-old Viennese prodigy's Die tote Stadt...
Things to Come, LSO, Strobel, Barbican review - blissful vis...
Last night at the Barbican was my first experience of a...
Antidote review - two films in one that lose sight of their...
“I believe Ayahuasca is something very deep,” says spiritual leader José López Sánchez in the...
Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Takács-Nagy, Stoller Hall, Ma...
It was very much the formula as before, as Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy moved their edition of the...