FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2021

Podcasts

Into the Darknet Diaries

Nowhere does the gap between coverage and reality seem bigger than in the field of technology and the internet

By Jessa Crispin

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Book Review

The Browning version

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson reviewed

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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Television

I remember Halston

Halston made American sportswear as chic as anything Paris couture houses were turning out

By Bob Colacello

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Books

In search of Nirad Chaudhuri

The forgotten visionary of British India

By Sumantra Maitra

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Film

Yet more death in Venice

Björn Andrésen is now tall and painfully thin with long silver hair and a matching beard that belong on Merlin

By Michael Collins

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Music

The lost king of the blues

No one played the blues like Mike Bloomfield

By Ben Lazarus

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Book Review

Revolution and repression

The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany reviewed

By Suzi Feay

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Film

Affluent white female killer

I Care a Lot reviewed

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Book Review

Brave new virtual world

The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam reviewed

By Lee Langley

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Book Review

A tender portrait of Leonora Carrington, painter, writer — and a mother who was not always there

The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington reviewed

By Clinton Heylin

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Music

A quiet revolution for our times may have begun

I hope more and more people will find the courage to speak the truth as they see it

By Winston Marshall

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Book Review

A divided city: the Big Three fall out in post-war Berlin

Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton reviewed

By Adam Sisman

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Book Review

Good luck enjoying eating salmon ever again

How to Love Animals: In a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance reviewed

By Emma Beddington

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