Culture
Wilde encounters
The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal
Two cheers for the LRB
The magazine that declares its main aim is to review books does anything but
Taurine state of grace
Christopher North joins the devoted cult of the elegant, enigmatic bullfighter José Tomás
Squeaks and bumps
Dominic Hilton reminisces about his father’s hoard of bizarre avant-garde CDs, LPs and cassette tapes
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us
Let It Be: Have we passed the golden era of the rock ‘n’ roll memoir?
There is an inexhaustible public appetite for learning about the private lives of our idols, but they don’t make rock stars like they used to
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Grand old warrior
Nigel Jones recalls the time he spent in the home of the legendary German writer Ernst Jünger
Nollywood comes of age
Christopher Silvester explains how censorship has suppressed Nigerian films that have won international acclaim
Rainbow nation
Hannah Betts says colour is the new currency of the C-19 crisis