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Drop your weapons
Knives Out deserves a reprieve from the dread of bad sequels
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
Go west, young man
Terry Gilliam holds court in exile
The Critic Books Podcast: Marianne Moore
In conversation with Heather Cass White: Moore’s editor
The rise of the bimbo
Being intentionally thick is not a feminist act
Too stupid for the truth
Lying to the public “for their own good” spells the end of democracy
What the Dickens
Spin-offs are all very well, but can’t we have the real thing?
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The EV delusion
Huge economic and infrastructure challenges must be overcome if electric vehicles are to become anything more than toys for middle class drivers