Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.