You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

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.

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.

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