Once again, the Golden Globes opened televised awards season in the run-up to a Donald Trump presidency. But this time, ...

Here’s a turn-up for the books. Hampstead greeted the New Year with a Stoppard play, Rock ’n’ Roll (2006), that’s regarded as ...

As the Underworld ferryman allusively joshes away, you may feel it’s a case of “abandon all hope ye who enter”. But while some of the more high-minded material might stump or stupefy ...

They were the work of that rare author who knows a subjunctive or a gerund when he sees one; or who can write allusively without appearing pretentious or patronising. They are books for what we used ...