This month in culture: March 2025
What to watch this March
Books & Arts
Barcelona rising
Graffiti in the old city is disappearing — in comes a host of new art treasures
The genuine faker John Myatt
He once painted fakes to trick art galleries; now he paints them for wealthy customers
The underground music scene reshaping Dubai’s cultural landscape
There’s growing appetite for original content centered on values and the artists who perform it
Like Bob Dylan in the movies
There is much more to the cinematic treatment of the ‘song and dance man’ than A Complete Unknown
Veteran journalist Edward Wong on his memoir of food and feud
‘Drawing the emotions out of my father was the most challenging part’
David Lodge, the master of Anglo-American campus humor
For sheer entertainment value, it is the ‘campus trilogy’ of Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work that can hardly be bettered
Inside Thomas Pynchon’s most underrated novel
The Crying of Lot 49 is often hawked as the gateway drug to the writer’s peculiar universe
Romantasy, the hot new literary genre du jour
Why are so many women reading the genre?
Bill Gates’s memoir offers an oddly revealing look into the Microsoft founder’s psyche
Source Code is really a book about perseverance in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds
The Einstein family atrocity
A shocking read about a World War Two tragedy
