Rachel Cooke

There was once a time when it was easy to manage (and tame) organizational change. That's because it showed up as a discrete, singular event that had a beginning and an end.

In 1992, Natasha Atchley was the type of girl we'd call a "baddie" in 2024.

A stirring performance by Víkingur Ólafsson of a piano concerto written amid a period of great sorrow. I think we could relate

Three decades after he first adapted Tchaikovsky’s classic, the choreographer’s reimagining of Swan Lake, with an all-male corps, is back for an anniversary tour. He and his original team tell the story of a show that stunned audiences

A new account of the months Simpson spent in China debunks the well-worn gossip about sexual adventures and opium addiction and even invites admiration for a ‘buccaneering’ woman

In this second series, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy, the mood is hushed. What volumes are spoken by the way a man doffs his cap.

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French has an overall rating of Positive based on 5 book reviews.

The age of streaming makes it difficult for hit shows to be one-offs. But this second series offers little enjoyment.

The crossbench peer grew up in care and went on to become an actor, an academic and one of the first black women in the House of Lords. Now she has written a memoir documenting her remarkable story

Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.