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“We did not expect you to make it,” doc says.

Meditation on the Bible’s great love poem can feel opaque but it is performed with great precision and set to a bewitching score

Director who drew on his Liverpool upbringing in evocative films such as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes

The director of Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, Davies was one of the great British filmmakers, known for his poignant dramas infused with memory and melodies.

Does literature really need a "gold standard"?

T. S. Eliot, somewhere in the Four Quartets, says, “hope would be hope for the wrong thing…” As the world careens towards a cliff, to use a cliché of contemporary conversations about a future that is increasingly the most urgent item on all agendas, hope for the wrong things springs eternal.

Despite her work being described as the greatest dance theatre of the century, Tanowitz can still be found ‘backstage, throwing up’ before shows. Will her new production, based on a Hebrew love poem, help her finally embrace success?

Paul Dean reviews “The Bible and Its Rewritings” by Piero Boitani.

In Dorset, a nonprofit is spearheading the revival of multi-day walks to reconnect with nature and and visit historic sites.

From Scorsese and Madonna to a Philip Guston retrospective, a Maria Callas tribute and Armando Iannucci’s play on Tory chaos, our writers pick the best things to see this autumn