The Critics
Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Rave that runs out of puff
Summertime and the streaming is easy, but Netflix’s White Lines leaves Adam LeBor cold
Lights, camera, chaos
Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom
An opera critic in lockdown
The critic, like a used-up traveller in ladies’ corsetry in a Fifties film, is enjoying a happy furlough
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
The welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
