Culture

Kennedy Center

The reformed Kennedy Center’s beautiful frenzy

i.e., we are so back

Raheem Kassam

The high-class latest installment allows audiences to relish great storytelling, done extremely well

Alexander Larman

The most reclusive major author in America is having something of a moment in 2025 and is set to release his ninth novel

Alexander Larman

Plus: a history of misguided pollsters

The Spectator

Going feral

Tim fought a rat in a local Pizza Hut – with onlookers watching through the windows

Peter Hasson

Culture
April 9, 2025
Does might make right?
The whole question fascinated the ancient Greeks
Peter Jones
Culture
April 9, 2025
Why is America so unhappy?
The causes of our discontent are complicated, but they’re rooted in our drift from traditional values
Teresa Mull
Culture
April 9, 2025
JFK conspiracy theories won’t be killed off
The facts that we know in 2025 are almost exactly the ones that the Dallas police discerned within hours of the assassination in 1963
Douglas Murray
Book Review
April 9, 2025
Graydon Carter’s memoir is the opposite of a tell-all
All is vanity in the golden age of magazines
Toby Young
Book Review
April 9, 2025
Amanda Knox’s new memoir asks what lies next
Free is expansive; contemplative in parts and kooky in others
Laura Allsop
Book Review
April 9, 2025
The double life of a single man
Two biographies connect the life and work of Christopher Isherwood
Kazuo Robinson
Book Review
April 9, 2025
A Charles Dickens patchwork
A night walk through the world of an author haunted by humanity
Oliver Soden
Book Review
April 9, 2025
Anne Frank, forever young
The story of how she, living in fear in the occupied Netherlands, would produce a global bestseller
Bart van Es
Art
April 9, 2025
Whatever happened to the Panther Den Show?
Why a generation of online right-wingers embraced its esoteric memes
Charles Cornish-Dale
Film
April 9, 2025
The genius of Gene Hackman
He was the greatest character actor of the past half-century
Alexander Larman