GORDON PARSONS recommends an ideal introduction to the writer who was first to give the English a literary language

GORDON PARSONS welcomes a graphic biography of George Sand, the most popular French novelist in 19th-century Britain

GORDON PARSONS relishes a fast moving production of Sheridan’s comic masterpiece

GORDON PARSONS relishes a play that reveals how language carries much more than simple communication

GORDON PARSONS appreciates a very necessary exploration of the benefit of knowing more than one language

GORDON PARSONS witnesses a production committed to great fun but signifying nothing 

GORDON PARSONS is underwhelmed by the inflation of a petty war into the undeserved status of epic

GORDON PARSONS wonders at a near perfect production of Shakespeare’s eloquent fairytale

GORDON PARSONS enjoys the tale of a self-emancipating woman told with deceptive simplicity

Uniformity of ‘talking heads’ presentation annihilates all possibility of conveying the true drama inherent in the play, suggests GORDON PARSONS

GORDON PARSONS recommends a book that will keep the reader, black or white, fully engaged and, as importantly, self-questioning

GORDON PARSONS recommends a production that makes no demands other than being entertained

GORDON PARSONS on a thought-provoking reflection on our out of joint times and a warning that there is no escape into the past

On stage the intriguing Splinter of Ice, eccentricity of Wuthering Heights and a revival of the Living Newspaper tradition absorbed just as much as the graphic novel The Dancing Plague, Ariel Dorfman’s The Compensation Bureau or Mario Vargas Llosa’s Harsh Times

A cautionary melodrama that hits the right notes in articulating the realities of class-ridden society with omnipresent violence against women, writes GORDON PARSONS

Narratives from detained refugees who exist in a virtual lawless world with no fixed sentences

GORDON PARSONS recommends an excellent theatrical tribute to nursing staff

Research into the lost plays of the Shakespearean period provides new insights into the Bard and his work, says GORDON PARSONS

Engrossing drama of Moscow meeting between Soviet spy Kim Philby and novelist Graham Greene