Apr 28th 2022To watch a film by Robert Eggers is to be transported to a bygone era. His fastidious attention...
CULTURE
THE WORDS “Las Vegas” conjure up, in many minds, images of free-spending, tacky tourism. No surprise then that the local...
Apr 30th 2022Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties. By David de Jong. Mariner Books; 400 pages; $28.99....
Apr 30th 2022Operation Car Wash. By Jorge Pontes and Márcio Anselmo. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Bloomsbury; 208 pages; $27 and...
WITH ALMOST 4,000 seats, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York is the largest indoor venue of its kind in...
Apr 30th 2022JULIA CHILD died almost 18 years ago, at the enviable age of 91, having done more to enrich...
Apr 30th 2022Young Mungo. By Douglas Stuart. Grove Press; 400 pages; $27. Picador; £16.99MUCH IN “SHUGGIE BAIN” echoed Douglas Stuart’s...
Apr 30th 2022“PROBABLY THE only thing one can really learn”, Philip Guston eventually concluded, “is the capacity to be able...
Apr 27th 2022Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. By Katherine Rundell. Faber & Faber; 339 pages; £16.95. To be published...
Apr 25th 2022The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, a town in south-eastern Bangladesh, are home to nearly 1m people from...