By Tessa Nolan There is a particular quality of light in Moscow at the end of August. It’s a low, golden light that seems to…
By Tessa Nolan Hollywood loves a wunderkind, and after the sleeper success of 2022’s Barbarian, Zach Cregger was anointed. That film, a masterclass in narrative misdirection…
The most defining moment of Gwyneth Paltrow’s twenty-first-century public life did not take place on a Hollywood red carpet, nor did it occur during a…
The physical location of a runway often communicates as much as the garments traversing it. To witness models striding out onto the cantilevered “Floating Bridge”…
By Tessa Nolan “DC, Fairfax, wherever the f**k we are,” snarled Liam Gallagher, frontman of the British music group Oasis, as the final, swirling chords…
By Tessa Nolan If you listen closely to the stories cinema is telling us this year, you can hear a distinct and welcome sound: the…
There is a certain kind of light that exists only in the early hours of the morning, after a night of profoundly inadequate sleep. It…
By Tessa Nolan Fashion is the most intimate of histories. While grand narratives are written in treaties and battle reports, the story of how we…
By Tessa Nolan Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons has been called the definitive play about conscience, and in Jonathan Church’s touring production –…
A city does not become a City of Culture by declaration alone. The title, awarded to Bradford for the year 2025, brought with it a…