‘What does being a woman have to do with conducting? My tits don’t get in the way’: Simone Young. Photograph: Bertold Fabricius‘What does being a woman have to do with conducting? My tits don’t get in the way’: Simone Young. Photograph: Bertold FabriciusAustralian arts in focusCultureInterviewSimone Young on Tár, conducting and living with perfect pitch: ‘It can be a nightmare’Kelly BurkeThe Australian maestro is at the top of one of the world’s most male dominated industries. Read More...
UK newsThe businesswoman, the £17m necklace and a criminal secretFish trader facing Italian jail sentence named as architect of Tokyo jewel robberyIn the fish markets of Peterhead, Dorothy Fasola was well-known as the Fiat-driving seafood exporter who drove a hard bargain. But the widowed businesswoman had a secret life: as the alleged mastermind of an audacious jewellery theft in Tokyo, and as an armed robber and counterfeiter on the run from Italian justice. Read More...
Jon Ronson ‘thinks we should be suspicious of psychiatry and all who sail in it’. Photograph: Murdo MacleodJon Ronson ‘thinks we should be suspicious of psychiatry and all who sail in it’. Photograph: Murdo MacleodThe ObserverHealth, mind and body booksReviewThe constant jokes are insanely funny but fail to mask the lack of a deeper purpose to Jon Ronson’s excursion into the world of psychiatry
The difficulty with reviewing Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test is that, if I am to be honest, I risk sounding like a person with no sense of humour – and who wants to be one of those? Read More...