Battle of Ideas

The Institute of Ideas’ annual festival, the Battle of Ideas, takes place at the Royal College of Art in London this weekend (30-31 October). Those not able to get to London can still browse the complementary Battles in Print essays, and check out the remaining Battle Satellite events, stretching over November in the UK, Germany, USA and India.

This week on CW, Austin Williams reviews Natascha Kampusch’s 3,096 Days, an inspirational account of her years of captivity following abduction as a child, and her final escape. Miguel Ceia asks why novelists’ lives are increasingly seen as being as important as their work. And Nicky Charlish reviews Treasures from Budapest at the Royal Academy. Meanwhile in London theatre, Miriam Gillinson reviews Nina Raine’s family drama, Tribe, at the Royal Court, and Matt Trueman is disappointed by Gabriel Bisset-Smith’s misfiring political satire, The Charming Man, at Theatre 503.

28 October 2010