The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problems
I have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. …
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The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch ○
The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics
What would writers do without problematic patriarchs? From King Lear to Logan Roy, they …
11 months ago
Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a throwback to a greedier, pernicious age | Simon Tisdall ○
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His attempts to bully and exploit the weak hark back to an era when the US emulated the worst aspects of the British empire
Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a tawdry, threadbare affair. The emper…
The US’s plutocrats and politicians want more, more, more. Matt LeBlanc shows us a better way | Arwa Mahdawi ○
‘Joey from Friends’ has gone viral for his lack of drive. This is what the world needs – someone who’s happy with nothing rather than everything
‘Nothing will come of nothing,” King Lear said. He was …
12 months ago
Clean Slate review – Laverne Cox’s comedy is so darn lovable it’s impossible to resist ○
Cox and co-star George Wallace have wonderful chemistry as a trans woman and her dad in this warm sitcom. It’s sweet, cosy and very funny
Posthumous work can be tricky to assess, but Clean Slate, exec…
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