Why are we so obsessed with Hitler’s penis?
There is a ‘small penis’ theory of history
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Trump blames Biden for shooting of National Guardsmen
His response had the rhetorical footprints of Stephen Miller
When will the Beatles bandwagon end?
Anthology 4 makes the extraordinary band seem ordinary
Tuesday
They should never make another James Bond film
The spy learned his final lesson in No Time to Die
Wednesday
Give Stellan Skarsgård an Oscar for Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier’s film shows us what compassion is
Tuesday
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
What would Buckley do?
Will his like ever come again?
Cheers to corkscrews!
I never leave home without one
Thursday
Will Disney strike a deal to end its YouTube TV blackout?
YouTubeTV knows it remains in the driver’s seat
Sunday
On less famous presidential assassins
Death by Lighting is uproarious fun
Wednesday
Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit
A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama
How chess killed Danya Naroditsky
His passion for the game led to his suicide last month
Tuesday
Florence and the Machine is back
The band’s new album, Everybody Scream, contains some of the best music released this year
It pays to be a bad college-football coach
A talent arms race is driving up the coaches’ price tags – even when those coaches are horrible
Friday
Don McCullin shows no signs of slowing down
In the veteran photojournalist’s later work, a sense of foreboding is never far away
Wednesday
Del Toro’s Frankenstein deserves the big screen
Still, it’s a relief that Netflix, for all its faults, is bankrolling work as individual and striking as this
Tuesday
Why was Steven Soderbergh’s Star Wars film rejected?
That his film might be seen as a risk says a lot about how tainted the brand has become
Thursday
Is OCD hip?
Olivia Levine’s one-woman show takes the mental illness as a subject
The Will Stancil Show is art
The AI-generated cartoon is better than anything Comedy Central or Adult Swim has produced in the last 20 years
Wednesday
Is Jeremy Strong our John Cazale?
The actor is the best part of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
