A broader view

This week on CW, Sarah Boyes blogs on the controversy over AC Grayling’s New College of Humanities, arguing the backlash against the ‘privatisation’ of higher education obscures a real crisis in the humanities and the need for free-spirited experimentation. And Karen Zouaoui reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened to Modernism?, arguing his critique of contemporary English literature is weakened by the same English insularity he condemns.

Meanwhile in films, Valentine Rossetti reviews Tom Ford’s A Single Man and Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, while Dan Schneider takes on a mixed selection of biographical documentaries. And in London theatre, Miriam Gillinson reviews the Young Vic’s new production of Gogol’s Government Inspector.