November 2019

‘Extinction Rebellion has discovered that by mixing up its demands with concern for the environment, it can win support — or at least a passing kind of support — from a much wider band of the population.’


Art November 1, 2019

A motel room of one’s own

Adman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Carolyn Stewart

Books November 1, 2019

‘A Russian vowel is an orange, an English vowel is a lemon’

Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov reviewed

Philip Hensher

Art November 1, 2019

Brazilian wax

Before the Beatles were boss, there was bossa nova

Jacob Heilbrunn

Art November 1, 2019

Audio blitzkrieg

‘Motörhead, remember me now’

Luke Haines

Art November 1, 2019

The perfect crime

Once true crime has you by the listicles, you’re compelled to return to the scene

Emily Ferguson

Books November 1, 2019

Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?

I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed

D.J. Taylor

Books November 1, 2019

A vacation in a hell of a state

North Korea Journal by Michael Palin reviewed

Claire Kohda Hazelton

Books November 1, 2019

Heart of darkness

Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean reviewed

Sara Wheeler

Books November 1, 2019

On Freud’s couch

The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968 by William Feaver reviewed

Craig Raine

Art November 1, 2019

James Delingpole

Books November 1, 2019

Why do we write dedications in books?

These ghostly remnants of love, loss and friendship tell stories of their own

Anthony Quinn

Art November 1, 2019

On photography, shrines and Maradona: a Neapolitan pilgrimage

The author wanders around Naples seeking transcendence – and finds it

Geoff Dyer