Exotic and irrational entertainment

Michael Spyres as Tristan and Lise Davidsen as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera. Image credit: Karen Almond/Met Oper...

Cover of Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. Image source: BookPage Anne Lister, a member of...

Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, 1980s. Image credit: David Corio. Image source: The Guardian On Tuesday  The Guardian carried an obitu...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers . Starring Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), Van Heflin (Sam Masterson), Lizabeth Scott (Toni Marachek)...

Television For us this was an especially rich year for television series, beginning in May with PBS's  Miss Austen , which also rounded...