Culture

Travel

A Greyhound ride through an unsettled America

This book’s rage is infectious and energizing

Lee Langley

Dean Cain joining ICE may be something of a bellwether

Julie Burchill

He became the very thing he always raged against

Larry O’Connor

The Freaky Friday star has lived more in one life than most people could in ten

Alexander Larman

Book Review

‘I haven’t got enough phlegm to undress,’ writes the poet, exhausted by readings and broadcasts, in letters spanning 1942-44

Craig Raine

Culture
August 8, 2025
The rise of white signaling
Let us get used once again to guiltlessly celebrating the sheer pleasure of being alive and white
Damian Reilly
Book Review
August 7, 2025
The language of hair in 19th-century America
A book about hair as a kind of cultural text
Ian Sansom
Television
August 7, 2025
South Park is ICE-cool on Trump
How do we know we live in a free country? When a cartoon can depict a president as having a gay love affair with Satan
Neal Pollack
Culture
August 5, 2025
Why the world is obsessed with white women
A brief history of the awkward fact that pale/white women are perceived by almost all humanity as more desirable
Sean Thomas
Music
August 5, 2025
The evolution of Andrew Lloyd Webber
The septuagenarian is, somehow, hip
Alexander Larman
Art
August 4, 2025
An American in Paris
John Singer Sargent was was destined for greatness – and scandal
Jane Coombs
Television
August 4, 2025
Return of the King of the Hill
Hank Hill continues to age well
Alexander Larman
Culture
August 4, 2025
Trump eulogizes Woke on Truth Social
The theater kids lose, normal America wins
Cockburn
Film
August 1, 2025
Will Steven Knight ruin James Bond?
The news that the Peaky Blinders creator will be writing the script has sent my confidence spiraling right down
Alexander Larman
Culture
July 31, 2025
The new Naked Gun is actually funny
Reviewing this film is like reviewing a whoopee cushion. It’s not here to make us think. It just wants to make us happy
Deborah Ross