Culture
Is this the end of cinemagoing as we know it?
Will compulsory face-masks, social-distancing and an air of paranoia drive audiences to online streaming once and for all?
How I discovered secondhand books
A home with books is a launching pad for a life well lived, says Daniel Johnson
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
How I discovered classical music
Daniel Johnson describes the joy of indulging in music as a teenage boy
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
Age cannot wither them: has the casting of Ian McKellen as Hamlet gone too far?
Does age-blind casting work when adapting Shakespeare?
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
