Chris Pratt is a role model for other celebrities
The actor doesn’t talk about his political views, so now everyone else is
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Booker prized
Books and ArtsNotes on a New Orleans professor
October 19, 2020
Sensei it again
Books and ArtsThe return of the Karate Kid
October 14, 2020
Monumental Mahler
Books and ArtsThe Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson reviewed
Morals and mortality
Books and ArtsHow will we remember the great musicians of the past?
October 12, 2020
Still painting after all these years
Books and ArtsWhile others have postured, Paul Resika has kept on painting
October 11, 2020
The perception of doors
Books and ArtsTake hope, ye who enter here
October 9, 2020
We loved them, yeah, yeah, yeah
150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown reviewed
October 3, 2020
The art of the presidency
Books and ArtsWhat are the major artworks of the Trump years?
September 25, 2020
Out of Nam’s way
Books and ArtsIn country, Down Under
September 21, 2020
The eyes have it
Books and ArtsRenaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg reviewed
September 16, 2020
Jussie Smollett, reigning queen of the gaslight
Don’t call it a comeback…seriously, don’t
September 15, 2020
Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph’s funeral for satire
Can you parody someone for whose campaign you raised $6 million?
September 14, 2020
Terry O’Neill: ‘Hollywood is lonely’
He was one of Britain’s greatest portrait photographers, possibly the greatest
September 13, 2020
It’s time we gave the Kardashians some credit
Their detractors would never admit it but the family were internet pioneers
September 9, 2020
Hollywood’s transrace hypocrisy
The Academy Awards are making America look stupid in front of the entire world
September 8, 2020
We’re not going to take it — again
Books and ArtsHow the Seventies are taking us back to their future
September 3, 2020
Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom
Books and ArtsHis tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair
August 31, 2020
The VMAs and New York’s COVID hypocrisy
The show must go on
August 26, 2020
Office romance: I’m loving The Bureau
Books and ArtsWhen real members of the DGSE saw the first season, they gave it a standing ovation
August 18, 2020
Gloria Steinem’s revisionist history
Her rise to fame and influence was based on her skill and determination at sidelining rivals
August 12, 2020
Ben Shapiro, WAP and the banality of the porn generation
Parents will be listening to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s degrading song ‘WAP’ with their children
August 5, 2020
Republicans steal the show in HBO’s The Swamp
Rep. Matt Gaetz stars in the documentary on Capitol Hill corruption
Human after all
Books and ArtsSinger, patriot and pioneer of social distancing, Morrissey is once again a star
August 3, 2020
How Camper Van Beethoven saw the future
And how I wrote a novel about it
August 2, 2020
Guerra goes to war
Books and ArtsAfter the waiting, the barbarians arrive
July 29, 2020
Don’t end blind auditions
There are very few hiring processes where elements of bias based on race, gender, friendship and family can be totally eliminated
July 28, 2020
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
She was not an anti-communist in spite of being a liberal, she was an anti-communist because she was a liberal
July 26, 2020
Meet the Mozarts
Books and ArtsThe family that plays together…
