Madness and cannibalism with David Grann
The author guides us through a military operation gone horribly awry
Books and Arts
Thursday
Broadway brings back Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
The first revival of Dancin’ on Broadway is a treasure trove for Fosse fanatics
Ernest Hilbert weathers the storms of life and fatherhood
Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters
Forbidden love in the Great War
If Alice Winn’s material is familiar, she handles it with skill and panache
Noël Coward, the English playwright who loved all things American
In order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
Is the New York subway the city’s best gallery?
Beneath the Big Apple’s streets, the MTA has amassed the largest collection of public art in the world
Why are there no paintings in Star Wars?
They are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
Lana Del Rey’s new record: samey, stale, sterile
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
The importance of going to the movies
Something happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
Sunday
Shipwrecks, amputations and polar-bear attacks: the doomed voyage of the Karluk
Rudyard Kipling would have appreciated this book
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
Friday
The quiet rise of Outback Noir
A new subgenre of Australian detective fiction is gaining global acclaim
Tuesday
A stripped back Doll’s House on Broadway
The difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd
Saturday
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Are we decent yet?
Wednesday
How America influenced George Orwell
The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged
Tuesday
Drinking with Picasso
To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
Saturday
There’s more to Pamela Anderson than Playboy and sex tapes
Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism
Monday
The difficulties of writing historical fiction
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
Why does a new Tolkien biography remain elusive?
His books and television adaptations keep coming, but we know little of J.R.R. Tolkien’s life
Vince McMahon: the modern-day P.T. Barnum who changed America
The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend