FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2023

Books

The return of Bret Easton Ellis

The American Psycho and Less Than Zero author discusses his first novel in thirteen years

By Elle Nash

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Books

The publishing mega-merger that wasn’t

Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster have failed to merge

By Alexander Larman

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Books

The spy who loved me

Suleika Dawson’s account of her affair with novelist John le Carré has caused controversy. But she is unrepentant

By Brice Stratford

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Book Review

Stephen Amidon’s day of the locust

A new novel explores the lengths communities will go to protect their own

By Philip Womack

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Book Review

Bob Dylan’s tower of song

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan reviewed

By Anne Margaret Daniel

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Book Review

Was the Queen Mother ever really funny?

Do Let’s Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Gareth Russell reviewed

By Harry Mount

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Theater

An ingloriously dumb adaptation

Almost Famous fails to make the jump from screen to stage

By Robert S. Erickson

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Exhibitions

Edward Hopper’s America

The popular perception of the loneliness in the painter’s work could not be more wrong

By William Newton

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Film

Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later

The film is, above all, an Elizabeth Taylor-worshipping vehicle

By Art Tavana

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