Mr Trump goes to the movies
What might an evening at the flicks with the 45th President look like?
Culture
Thursday
Wednesday
The real Durrells of Corfu
The family drama behind the PBS show
Tuesday
The very public review of the New York Review of Books
Surely supposed editorial issues at the NYRB could have been addressed without taking the step of dismissing Buruma
Saturday
The coddling of American journalism
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
Thursday
No-one comes off well in the Allen-Farrow family drama
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
Ian Buruma and the age of sexual McCarthyism
The New York Review of Books editor is the latest casualty of the identitarian mob
Wednesday
Big Jay McNeely brought joy to millions with his music
The legendary tenor saxophonist died last weekend aged 91
Tuesday
It’s the blood that gets you
Delacroix in the flesh, at the Met
Friday
2001: A Space Odyssey still gets better as it goes along, 50 years on
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
Thursday
Sensation seeking
The Seagull reviewed
It’s not just the moon landings. Everywhere, the PC brigade is rewriting history
I remember the moon landing very well. I was nine years old. I can remember too my sense of outrage and disillusion. ‘This is a blatant violation of the moon’s dignity and sovereignty,’ I told my parents, as the astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong attempted to secure the US flag to the lunar surface. … Read more
Monday
Hank Mobley, the greatest sax player you never heard
The forgotten genius of Blue Note was a prince among players, but he died a pauper
Sunday
Any storm in a port
The Bookshop reviewed
Thursday
Millennials aren’t taking offence. They’re hunting for victims
The noble defence of an infinitely multiplying list of ‘marginalised groups’ is a predatory movement
Monday
The Precisionist Impulse: in search of the first American art movement
The group melded the materialism of the urban landscape with what was idealistic and essentially Romantic about the city
Saturday
Handling Pooh with kid gloves
Christopher Robin reviewed
Thursday
Stop calling me ‘a privileged white man’ – I’m more than that
There’s only one thing you can’t be in our pluralistic society, and that’s just you
Jimmy Page is a Capricorn – that says it all
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography by Chris Salewicz reviewed
Tuesday
Where did all the Chippendales go?
Time to buy brown
Monday
Life ‘n’ Arts podcast: celebrating American audacity with William Giraldi
William Giraldi, author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark ahead of publishing his first collection of essays,
The backlash against Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman leads towards a divided America
David Duke would be proud of Boots Riley ’s argument
Friday
The poetry of Tommy Robinson
They said politics couldn’t get verse, but now it has…
Thursday
V.S. Naipaul’s gentle side
The last week of the celebrated and controversial author
Only Aretha Franklin had the soul power to summon the spirit at will
The Queen of Soul is dead — there is no plausible heir.
Tuesday
Azealia Banks is telling the truth
Online life is no life at all
Thursday
Thank God for the return of the generation gap in pop
Pop was invented for teenagers, and it’s wholly appropriate that it should have outposts that are completely remote to me.
Thursday
Did Ed Balls mean to make a documentary on the joys of Trump’s America?
The former British Shadow Chancellor’s new documentary is more favourable of Trumpsters than anyone at the BBC could have ever imagined.
The artist who breathes Technicolor life into historic photographs
‘My goal is to build a bridge between the present and the past.’