FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2021

Music

Dark knight of cool

Poor Chet Baker. He really was born to be blue

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Music

What did Steve get?

The Buzzcocks guitarist on a weird 2020

By Graeme Thomson

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Art

Pictures at an exhibition

As he collects nearly two decades of essays and criticism, Marco Grassi recalls a life in the art world

By Marco Grassi

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Film

Sundance memories

Robert Redford’s film festival goes virtual

By Gavin Smith

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Books

Ever the Twain

For an artist to qualify as a genius, he only has to do create a single masterpiece once. Twain did it twice

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Books

Radetzky marches on

From the sounds of Strauss to the stories of Joseph Roth

By David Pryce-Jones

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Podcasts

Comfortably numb: Sam Harris on meditation

Harris ignores the prerequisites for meditation that nearly all religions consider essential

By Emily Ferguson

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Television

Picking Apple

There probably is something here for everyone. But maybe only one thing

By Katrina Gulliver

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Book Review

Spells and bindings

The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching reviewed

By Dennis Duncan

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Book Review

Fear thy neighbor

The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White reviewed

By Peter Tonguette

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Film

Here’s looking at you, Kid

One hundred years on from the seminal Chaplin flick

By Christopher Sandford

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Book Review

Missing the big picture

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan reviewed

By Martin Gayford

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Book Review

Loving the alien

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro reviewed

By Sameer Rahim

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Television

The third degree

ZeroZeroZero reviewed

By James Delingpole

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Book Review

Things go flying

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale reviewed

By Susan Hill

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