Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, the ...

The typical Jason Statham movie character – muscular, resourceful, drily humorous – could probably carve an army into ...

Joshua Oppenheimer made his name directing two disturbing documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), that dealt with the aftermath of the brutal anti-communist massacres ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

Over the last three years of the London Handel Festival, two experimental productions have proved to be highlights – not just of the festival itself – but of the musical year. In 2023, Adele Thomas’s ...