Before representing five of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, the lawyer advised the producer on how to discredit his accusers. Does she have any regrets?The night before I meet Lisa Bloom, the BBC screens its interview with…
‘We Are Living In Parallel Universes’: Ted Cruz…
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) unloaded on The New York Times on the Fourth of July for characterizing President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore — where he unapologetically defended American principles, described the history of…
The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley review…
The former editor-at-large of Vogue dishes the dirt on his old boss Anna Wintour in delightfully over-the-top fashionNot many of us are able to stitch a straight line from the dreams of childhood to our…
Groundhog day getting you down? Here’s my trick…
For a while supper and wine were sufficient; now I’m watching every adaptation that is better than its source materialI suspect I’m not alone in this but, at some point in the past two weeks,…
Allez les standups! Are French comics gutsier than…
They’re inspired by Charlie Hedbo and tell jokes that would get British comedians cancelled. Our writer spends a week watching French standupsHow Greece’s theatre staged triumph from tragedyLast dance for Berlin’s 56-hour party people?Poland’s world-beating…
‘You’re one of the more normal composers’: Simon…
The conductor and composer talk Beethoven, Brexit and bunking off sports day ahead of a new Barbican/LSO season that will celebrate Adès’s 50th birthdayOne titan in the room is a challenge. A pair threatens to…
Forget Julius Caesar – Trump is more like…
Two US companies have pulled their sponsorship from a New York production of Julius Caesar because it depicts a Trump-like character – grisly ending and all. But the bard has other characters that better fit…
Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Most children caught up in war…
The Nobel prize-winning author on using oral history to convey the horrors of war, her regard for Dostoevsky, and Greta Thunberg’s activismSvetlana Alexievich gave a lecture last week commemorating the work of murdered Russian journalist…
Shut down but not silenced: Isis play Homegrown…
Cancelled in 2015, a play about the radicalisation of young Muslims has now been published. It’s challenging, gloriously authentic and prompts grownup debate. So who is brave enough to put it on?In 2015, the National…