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Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
Emerald Fennell’s misbegotten adaptation of ‘Wuthering Heights’ destroys the very structure of Emily Brontë’s classic story.
It appears that people now find comfort in the idea that the life of even the greatest of writers is no more satisfying than their own.
Radley Metzger’s 1975 hardcore adaptation of a celebrated literary hoax is a vast improvement on the cynical source material.
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
It’s hard to believe in God when even very bright, thoughtful people can’t come up with good reasons why you should.
Mary Clare Jalonick’s oral history of the 6 January riot is an important corrective to the second Trump administration’s vandalism of the historical record.
Two new books about America’s justice system paint a bleak picture of a deeply divided country.
Richard Linklater’s film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘À Bout de Souffle’ is a delight.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
David Mamet’s new polemic is filled with muddled prose and muddled thought.
The author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ has returned with a new memoir, which features all the usual problems with her writing writ large.
An impressive new biography of Jessica Mitford emphasises her sceptical and anti-authoritarian personality. But this was only half of the picture.
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.