Culture

One hundred years after transforming the modern novel, Dorothy M. Richardson’s neglected works are being reclaimed, says Rebecca Bowler

Despite many attempts, Gustave Flaubert’s tale of adultery remains resistant to adaptation, says Philip Kemp

A Jewish writer fills a vacuum with a play about Israel that refuses to take a simple view as it foregrounds an erotic older woman. Matthew Reisz writes

A witty version of the Greek tragedy confronts our desire to watch the unwatchable as it diverts our focus from binaries to transitioning, says Liz Schafer

In today’s multichannel landscape, says Fred Inglis, there are more bright, wondering eyes on the world than Babestations

A rare staging of the dramatist’s work pushes to the fore seldom-seen plays that reveal the tensions at the heart of his oeuvre, says Lisa Hopkins

Filming in what they believed were Wilko Johnson’s final days, the guitarist and the director offer up a celebratory vision of culture and life, writes Andrew Blake

Davina Quinlivan reflects on how female voyeurs in film contrast with ‘impotent’ peeping Toms by being portrayed as empowered and vengeful

Having entered Hollywood a wunderkind, Orson Welles could never escape his own myth or his self-destructive tendencies, says Philip Kemp

An extraordinary juxtaposition of Gothic folly and fantastical sculpture has created a show to fire the imagination, says Matthew Reisz

While there is plenty to admire in the museum’s well-heeled spectacle, Shahidha Bari finds it strangely devoid of historical, social and cultural context

Alan Rice on writers and artists who are inspired by reimagining, re-enacting and creating anew the identities and histories of the UK’s African diaspora

Why does the academy treat the genre so disrespectfully? Richard Bradford investigates

Murderous deeds in Islam’s name cannot exterminate love and courage in this moving Mali-set drama inspired by real events, writes Duncan Wu

Twenty-five years after its publication, Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae is still an energising ‘cultural bible’

His daughter’s documentary shows why Samuel Fuller’s brash movies made him a ‘poet of the American idiom’ and a cult hero in France

The vibrant residential library founded on the bequest of the former prime minister can be both productive and restorative, finds Emma Rees

A staging of the 1647 Putney Debates poses inconvenient questions about political means and ends, says Liz Schafer

Films about female kinship and community are rare, precious exceptions to cinema’s enduring focus on groups of men, says Davina Quinlivan

Anthony Trollope’s style is characterised by equivocation. How could Simon Grennan replicate this visually in a graphic novel adaptation?

The repercussions of a man’s cowardice at a French ski resort entertain Duncan Wu in a most uncomfortable way

Justin Audibert’s sparkling production showcases the tragedy’s uneasy blend of offence and elation with just a hint of Tarantino, says Peter J. Smith

An exhibition of Georgian satirical prints is a timely study of the medium’s enduring power, finds Alexander Massouras

An artist often portrayed as an orthodox portraitist is depicted as having an ‘unquenchable thirst’ for innovation and experiment, finds Shahidha Bari

Bold new works exemplify the ethos of a university’s unique underground experimental exhibition space

Julianne Moore gives a complex, nuanced portrait of a professor confounded and isolated by Alzheimer’s, writes Lucy Bolton

Since her debut novel sparked a bidding war, the lecturer in creative writing has been writing full-time. But, she tells Emma Rees, she does miss teaching

Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is actor-centred and is often best presented stripped of all distractions, says Peter J. Smith

Recent films fail to recognise the support women give to famous male artists or scientists, says Mary Evans

Nathan Smith looks back at a film movement that has challenged stigmas and defended the transgressive

The work of Thomas Pynchon makes its Hollywood debut in a nostalgia noir tale faithfully adapted by a kindred spirit

Uwe Schütte on the German band whose electronic beats and futuristic visions are still relevant today

Live broadcasting has changed how audiences view theatre and performance, says Liz Schafer

Pulp thrillers by MPs reveal something disturbing about Britain’s political unconscious, say Nicola Allen and Aidan Byrne

Anglo-Saxons did not use the four-letter profanities we credit them with, says Kate Wiles

In warfare, there has been a long tradition of Christmas truces. But peace and goodwill to all men has rarely outlasted New Year, writes A. W. Purdue

Agyness Deyn unflinchingly portrays a woman’s experience of epilepsy in this unconventional fairy tale

Footage shot in a cable car carrying pilgrims to a Nepalese temple makes for profoundly moving cinema, writes Duncan Wu

Roger Michell faced ethical as well as artistic issues in dramatising the vilification of an innocent eccentric questioned over a murder, he tells Richard Howells

The pioneers who examined human sexual desire took personal risks to uncover the realities of sex, this exhibition shows. Fern Riddell writes

A musical lecture explores the links between three men connected by the Nuremberg trials, writes Matthew Reisz

This remarkable ensemble piece exploring the rebuilding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina deserves a bigger viewership, writes Emma Rees

Philip Kemp on a cinematic portrait of an artist that does justice to the man and his work

Rebecca Onion on the pros and cons of scholarship as listicle

The thinking person’s festival of culture in the capital offers Londoners a variety of delights and insights into the city around them

The German artist critiqued Western ideals with humour and a sharp eye for their subjective nature, says Eliane Glaser

Alex Danchev on the artist’s extraordinary and formidable work

Cinema is the perfect medium to examine the role and ritual of food in family, in love and in bringing people together. Davina Quinlivan feasts her eyes

An implausible and ludicrous piece of hokum that steals its best ideas succeeds because of its vices, says Duncan Wu

Insight into life in an iconic institution in flux makes Martin McQuillan fear for the future of public universities in the US

Identity in the English-Scottish border region is a fluid concept that cannot be defined by nationality, says Ysanne Holt

On the bicentenary of the Irish writer’s birth, Bill McCormack weighs his preoccupation with family, guilt, dualism and the disappeared

When Liz Schafer interviewed the Oh! What A Lovely War director, she was bowled over by her passionate and indiscreet insights into her life in theatre

Expensive food, fancy glamping and questionable hats: from Sonisphere, Emma Rees reflects on 27 years of music festivals

Disquiet grows into horror as an infamous Nazi doctor takes an unhealthy interest in a young girl in Argentina, finds Philip Kemp

Shahidha Bari on a thoughtfully assembled tour of dissent in all its handcrafted, inflatable, gorilla-masked, badge-bedecked glory

Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan stand out in a compelling tale of torment and redemption, says Duncan Wu

From Walter White to Dexter Morgan, what lies behind our fascination with imperfect heroes? asks Murray Smith

There’s much to enjoy at this year’s arts events, says Matthew Reisz, even if its central theme is a bit tenuous

The Cinema of Childhood, a touring festival, spurs Davina Quinlivan to reflect on screen representations of bodies in flux