Culture
Our deepest, darkest fears
The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre
Good-natured amateurishness
British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Thai feasts, muscular unionists and literary panjandrums
The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author
Jugular vain
Hannah Betts artfully curates the perfect neckmess
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
Breathtaking… and empty
The formidably long run-time of Dune leaves viewers with little world-building and a lack of colour
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Dilyn goes to Glasgow COP26
The Critic Narrated: Episode Three, with Robert Hutton, Josephine Bartosch and Robert Thicknesse
Juke it out
It’s Wes Anderson vs Edgar Wright in the battle for the coolest ever soundtrack