Apocalyptic doom, high tragedy and everyday eccentricity

This week on CW, Robin Walsh reviews Clive Hamilton’s Requiem for a Species and finds a version of environmentalism stripped of idealism and dripping with authoritarian pessimism. Sarah Boyes reviews Tosca at the ENO in London, and reflects on the notorious popularity of Puccini both in his own time and our own very different time. And Jo Caird welcomes a new literary voice from America in a review of The Great Perhaps, by Joe Meno. Plus more in theatre, fiction and visual arts. Coming soon: more on the World Cup blog.

18 June 2010