In the Nancy Mitford novels there is a character called the Bolter. She is the narrator’s mother who lives in Kenya and parks her daughter on an unmarried aunt. She is always falling for unsuitable ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

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I’m not sure what stands out for you when you think of the late 1990s – DeLillo’s Underworld? The dot-com bubble? Titanic? – but for me it’s two things: working (somewhat reluctantly) in New Age ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at. ‘I ...

Ring Down the Curtain - The Critic by Anand Tucker (dir) ...

Simon Russell Beale is a magnetic and versatile actor, most at home on stage. A flamboyant comic performer with a nimble sense of mischief, he can also be wistful and achingly vulnerable, especially ...

Except, perhaps, by the standards of today’s US presidential candidates, George W Bush has never seemed intellectually formidable. He did, however, once say something wise: in 2005 Hurricane Katrina, ...

This review will be an all-round disappointment. It will, and indeed should, disappoint David McWilliams. He deserves no less. But it will also, I fear, disappoint readers of Literary Review, ...

Medieval documents – both books and individual documents, such as charters – survive in remarkable quantities. Neil Ker’s Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, which gives details about holdings ...

In late 2022, at the G20 summit held at a balmy resort in Bali, Indonesia, the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, ...