There’s more to Pamela Anderson than Playboy and sex tapes
Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism
Books & Arts
Drinking with Picasso
To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
How America influenced George Orwell
The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Are we decent yet?
A stripped back Doll’s House on Broadway
The difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd
The quiet rise of Outback Noir
A new subgenre of Australian detective fiction is gaining global acclaim
Andrey Kurkov brings clarity to the Ukraine invasion
The highest compliment that can be paid to Kurkov’s diary is that it is not a work of art
Shipwrecks, amputations and polar-bear attacks: the doomed voyage of the Karluk
Rudyard Kipling would have appreciated this book