Culture
Sean Connery: the man beyond Bond
Who was the “real” Sean Connery?
Dear Mademoiselle (Alpha)
Mademoiselle was not much of a composer, too set on correct form to allow the flight of inspiration
Trick nor Treat: the hounding of Halloween
Dressing up for Halloween has been cancelled by the culture police
Flirting with damnation
As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer
Tom Stoppard: A private man now on parade
This biography is a testament to detailed analysis and intelligent insight, says Alexander Larman
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
The death of the DVD commentary
How the rise of streaming platforms has killed home entertainment
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
The Mirror of #MeToo
Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching