FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2023

Book Review

Andrey Kurkov brings clarity to the Ukraine invasion

The highest compliment that can be paid to Kurkov’s diary is that it is not a work of art

By Fred Skulthorp

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Books

How James Bond began

Casino Royale introduced the world’s readers to exotic phenomena that would become as familiar as their families

By John Walsh

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Book Review

The quiet rise of Outback Noir

A new subgenre of Australian detective fiction is gaining global acclaim

By Amanda Craig

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Theater

A stripped back Doll’s House on Broadway

The difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd

By Robert S. Erickson

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Film

Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?

Are we decent yet?

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Books

How America influenced George Orwell

The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged

By D.J. Taylor

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Exhibitions

Drinking with Picasso

To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats

By William Newton

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Exhibitions

The strange allure of Vermeer

In a new exhibition, the curators go some way to explaining the brilliance of the artist

By Francesca Peacock

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Book Review

There’s more to Pamela Anderson than Playboy and sex tapes

Unfortunately, most of Love, Pamela fails in its quest for victimhood and intellectualism

By Mitchell Jackson

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