Culture

We’ve grown increasingly obsessed with dystopian narratives since 2016. But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?

The phrase ‘get woke, go broke’ captures well why Doctor Who was losing fans – and I’m not sure the writing in the new series dispenses with this problem

More power and glory from the dead poet, singer, lover and humourist

America’s prom queen endorsed two Tennessee Democrats this weekend

Private Life reviewed

Jan van Eyck at the Frick Collection

Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer reviewed

Kanye West’s message could do for black America what Trump’s did for the people of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin

His rant against Democrats was more fun and interesting than the celebrity-endorsed jokes against Kavanaugh that took up the rest of the show

‘Tell ‘em Lindsey sent you!’ he squeaked, offering himself up like a human sacrifice on the altar of entertainment

What might an evening at the flicks with the 45th President look like?

The family drama behind the PBS show

Surely supposed editorial issues at the NYRB could have been addressed without taking the step of dismissing Buruma

The snowflakes aren’t melting as they get older and wiser. They now have jobs in publishing and media and are marching through the institutions they work for

We could believe either Allen’s version or Farrow’s, but that would get us no closer to the truth, because neither is trustworthy and both are proven fantasists

The legendary tenor saxophonist died last weekend aged 91

Delacroix in the flesh, at the Met

The critics who disliked 2001 on its initial release found the characters empty and the plot thin — but it’s their criticism that has dated badly

This adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play is handsomely mounted, as they say, and features a stellar cast (including Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan), but it won’t be setting the world alight. It is not a waste of 90 minutes, and Bening is superb, as if you even needed me to tell you that.

Reports of the death of bookstores are fiction. In 1931, there were about 4,000 bookstores in the United States. Almost all of them were gift stores, selling a limited stock of paperbacks. Only about 500 of them were specialist bookstores, and almost all of them were in major cities. True, between 1995 and 2000, the

Yardie is Idris Elba’s first film as a director and what I have to say isn’t what I wanted to say at all. I love Elba and wanted this to be terrific. I wanted him to be as good from behind as he is from the front, so to speak. I wanted this to absolutely

The group melded the materialism of the urban landscape with what was idealistic and essentially Romantic about the city

Christopher Robin reviewed

Time to buy brown

William Giraldi, author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark ahead of  publishing his first collection of essays,

They said politics couldn’t get verse, but now it has…