The strange life of Lindsay Lohan
The Freaky Friday star has lived more in one life than most people could in ten
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
August 7, 2025
South Park is ICE-cool on Trump
How do we know we live in a free country? When a cartoon can depict a president as having a gay love affair with Satan
August 5, 2025
The evolution of Andrew Lloyd Webber
The septuagenarian is, somehow, hip
August 4, 2025
An American in Paris
John Singer Sargent was was destined for greatness – and scandal
Return of the King of the Hill
Hank Hill continues to age well
July 31, 2025
South Park has lost the plot
The show has become a shitlib parody of itself
July 28, 2025
The boorishness of Ellen DeGeneres
She didn’t flee oppression; she fled embarrassment
Eddington, a Greek tragedy in the Wild West
Ari Aster’s new film gives Covid a mythic air
RIP Tom Lehrer
The musician-comedian spread like herpes, rather than Ebola
July 23, 2025
Who does Colbert think he’s kidding?
America loves a wiseass, not a smartass
July 22, 2025
RIP Ozzy Osbourne
There will never be another Ozzy
July 20, 2025
The sad saga of Lena Dunham
If Dunham was, once, the voice of her generation, that that torch has long since passed to other, more interesting talents
July 16, 2025
What do the Emmy nominations tell us about television?
Hollywood could use a little anarchy
July 15, 2025
The enduring appeal of Jaws, 50 years on
Books and ArtsIt’s easy to forget that there was nothing inevitable about the film’s long-lasting success
‘Being a mom sometimes sucks’: an interview with Sarah Hoover
Books and ArtsThe art historian’s memoir is no feminist treatise
How museums can promote diversity without demonizing tradition
Books and ArtsWe need art that keeps our collective imagination and sense of tradition alive
July 14, 2025
The resistible rise of Pedro Pascal
Why is it so hard to warm to him?
July 11, 2025
On holiday with Goya
Spending a few days with the artist famous for his brooding ‘black paintings’ was not something I was sure I’d enjoy
July 2, 2025
Elio and the decline of Pixar
What explains the studio’s latest flop?
Diddy is finished
He avoided the most-serious charges, but his image will never recover
July 1, 2025
The wildly misguided My Oxford Year
This looks to be one of the most clueless and misjudged attempts at romantic comedy-drama ever put on screen
Who could be Mount Rushmore’s fifth head?
When the aliens land in thousands of years, or sometime around Christmas of this year, we want them to think: these were their gods
Sabrina Carpenter mainstreams cutesy violence towards women
The singer changed her album cover that suggested ‘I like being roughed up in the bedroom’
June 26, 2025
F1 is forgettable, but a lot of fun
Be prepared to forget virtually everything apart from the sheer sensation of being in an F1 race car traveling very, very fast indeed
Don’t mourn the death of TV
America is better for having largely abandoned television
June 19, 2025
28 Years Later is the movie of the summer
In a summer full of witless, unnecessary sequels and remakes, 28 Years Later is the real thing
June 9, 2025
The Tony Awards were surprisingly safe and unexciting
The ceremony went two steps forward and one step backwards
Figures emerge like ghosts from Antonia Showering’s canvases
The hues she’s employed are bodily, yet transcend into a surreal haze
June 4, 2025
Patti LuPone is a diva – not a racist
Kecia Lewis called LuPone’s noise complaint a ‘racial microaggression’
