
There comes a point in a writer's life when he " it's usually a he " stops writing about life and starts writing about writing. With Ibsen this stage arrived in the self-reflexive rage and u…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:57PM[SHARE]Many dramatists have taken their turn putting faces to Thoreau's lives of "quiet desperation". But the challenge in what Thoreau goes on to conclude " that it is therefore a mark of wisdom a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PM[SHARE]The short story is a virtuoso form " the guest at the literary party who drops in for the merest of moments, scintillating and fascinating all before withdrawing with calculated aplomb, leav…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:40AM[SHARE]It's not like we're short of operas. Thousands of works spanning over 400 years make up the western operatic repertoire. Of these maybe 100 get a regular airing in contemporary opera houses,…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PM[SHARE]It's not every evening one is invited to take A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson, and the 90 minutes spent in the company of England's greatest wit and original lexicographer pass in a whirl of a…
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