January 2021

Book Review

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011 by William Feaver reviewed

By Craig Raine

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Music

It’s like rock ’n’ roll never happened

By John Waters

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Books

Vonnegut did plenty to offend the conservative Christian sensibilities that characterized my educational institutions

By Grayson Quay

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Music

Life is still a cabaret

By Madeleine Kearns

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Art

An artist with the soul of a pirate

By Daisy Dunn

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Television

Female antiheroines — at last

By Katrina Gulliver

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Books

On the joys of armchair travel

By Hugh Thomson

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Books

Graham Greene needed peace of mind and escapist thrills

By Nicholas Shakespeare

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Television

Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd

By James Panero

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Television

The Queen’s Gambit overcomes its hackneyed ‘girl power’ message

By James Delingpole

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Books

The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler reviewed

By William S. Smith

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