November 2024


Book Review October 21, 2024

Why Shakespeare remains the great playwright

Rhodri Lewis’s book offers so many fresh insights and well-turned phrases that I had to buy a new notebook to fit them all in

Philip Womack

Book Review October 21, 2024

The real Kennedy men

Maureen Callahan challenges us to ask whether our American heroes are really who we think they are

Josie Cox

Film October 21, 2024

How controversial is The Apprentice?

Abbasi’s heady weaving of the antic and the deadly serious may explain some of the criticism that’s been leveled at the film

Laura Allsop

Film October 21, 2024

Twenty-five years of Fight Club and American Beauty

What the notorious films have to say about masculinity in crisis?

Amelia Butler-Gallie

Art October 21, 2024

War, one artwork at a time

Ukrainian nationals and their allies have been working tirelessly to promote the voices of a people under siege

Alexandra Bregman

Art October 21, 2024

A classic monument for World War One

Sabin Howard brings classicism back to the Mall

William Newton

Books and Arts October 21, 2024

This month in culture: November 2024

What to watch this November

The Spectator