This month in culture: June 2024
Our guide to what should be on your radar
Books & Arts
The digital Ozymandias: Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian on his mission to make Giza last forever
‘I’d like to say we’re trying to be the repository for Giza’s past, Giza’s present and Giza’s future’
The new revival of The Wiz is psychologically bland
The original cultural punch of the 1970s production has been replaced with gaudy, empty commercialism
The individualistic talents of the Pet Shop Boys
The eccentricity and idiosyncrasy of Britain’s most commercially successful duo should be cherished and extolled
Was the psychedelic art movement worth it?
This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of hippie culture itself
Christopher Priest was a grievously underrated novelist
His career represented a sequence of missed opportunities for the world beyond his chosen genre to recognize his skill and quiet profundity
A skillful retelling of one of World War Two’s most dramatic stories
Nahlah Ayed transports the reader to World War Two as experienced by the brave SOE agents who landed behind enemy lines
Salman Rushdie’s memoir is a devastating and powerful account of near-death
The writer remains strong, his determination to write a beacon for anyone who cares about freedom of thought and speech
A history of the LGBTQ+ aspects of the Boy Scout movement
Mike De Socio’s Morally Straight details how forty years of gay activism diversified the group for the better
Nellie Bowles critiques progressivism and the media that covers it
One of many fascinating things to be learned from Morning After the Revolution is the process by which someone gets canceled
An incisive memoir of life in the cloisters
Catherine Coldstream refuses to be bitter and Cloistered is all the more beautiful, and holy, as a result
