Plus ça change

This week on CW, Michele Ledda welcomes Frank Furedi’s demolition of today’s educational orthodoxies in his book Wasted, but argues for a more comprehensive challenge to the contemporary obsession with change, starting with an agreed school curriculum. And Wes Brown admires Martin Amis’ new novel The Pregnant Widow, discerning a new maturity in Amis’ reflections on the Sexual Revolution.

Meanwhile on the London stage, Timandra Harkness reviews Janacek’s Katya Kabanova and The Cunning Little Vixen, both sung in English, and Miriam Gillinson reviews Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis performed in Polish. And Giulia Merlo finds another gem at the London Word Festival.

25 March 2010