Friday Favourite: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
"The novella’s real focus is the inevitability of death itself, which is so gargantuan, physically and philosophically, that retrospection is crushed into irrelevance."
Friday Favourite: War and Peace
In this Coronavirus season, existing dystopian novels have suddenly become “prophetic”. The world may be grinding to a standstill, but Generation COVID can’t while...
The human desire for an easy explanation
Joseph Botman makes a case for the irrelevance of individuals in history
In conversation with the directors of ‘Anna Karenina’
Jeevan Ravindran discovers how the three directors developed this new musical