What Richard Scarry did all day
Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore
Books and Arts
Wednesday
Dad’s the word
Podcasts are the perfect environment to create parasocial connections
The odd couple: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate reviewed
Sunday
Fatty Arbuckle’s fall
Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture
The art of politics: what ministers hang on their walls
The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall
Saturday
Perry Mason was America’s Sherlock Holmes
Perry Mason personified the country that won World War Two and was enjoying well-deserved prosperity
Somebody’s watching me
All Light, Everywhere reviewed
A fatal clash of civilizations
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes reviewed
A letter to George Steiner
George Steiner was easier to admire than to love
Friday
Into the Darknet Diaries
Nowhere does the gap between coverage and reality seem bigger than in the field of technology and the internet
The Browning version
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson reviewed
Thursday
I remember Halston
Halston made American sportswear as chic as anything Paris couture houses were turning out
In search of Nirad Chaudhuri
The forgotten visionary of British India
Yet more death in Venice
Björn Andrésen is now tall and painfully thin with long silver hair and a matching beard that belong on Merlin
Wednesday
The lost king of the blues
No one played the blues like Mike Bloomfield
Tuesday
Affluent white female killer
I Care a Lot reviewed
Thursday
Watching The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window reviewed
Wednesday
Mind of a murderer
Podcasting rose on the true crime boom — and it’s still the easiest way to build a show and an audience
No success like failure
Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?
Tuesday
Girls on film
New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography
