Post-bellum

Following the Battle of Ideas festival in London, a number of Battle Satellite events are still to come, in the UK and beyond. This week on CW, Tom Slater reviews last month’s Satellite on ‘The X Factor: Singing in the name of quality?’. Further Battle themes are explored in depth in this year’s Battles in Print. Meanwhile, Mike Jakeman reviews Christos Tsiolkas’ controversial novel The Slap, reading it as a study in the failure of Australian liberalism, while Miguel Ceia takes on Philip Roth’s Nemesis, finding a story about moral failure.

In London theatre, Miriam Gillinson is impressed by a new production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted at the Lyric Hammersmith, and Daniel Yates reviews Noel Coward’s Design for Living at the Old Vic.

4 October 2010