Heroic horizons

This week on CW, Karl Sharro challenges the low horizons of London mayor Boris Johnson’s anti-high rise policy. Mark Carrigan argues that contemporary cynicism about heroes, reflected in everything from The Wire to The Dark Knight Returns merely perpetuates the dearth of heroism. And in London theatre Matt Trueman reviews an imaginative Measure for Measure at the Almeida, Miriam Gillinson admires Judi Dench in the Rose Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Giulia Merlo reviews a new translation of Thomas Bernhard’s controversial Heldenplatz at the Arcola.

Next week, coverage of the London Word Festival, Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy revisited, Muslim cinema, and Alice in Wonderland.

4 March 2010