Literary fiction is fiction valued chiefly for the quality of its writing, the depth of its characters and the questions it raises about human experience,…
British film costume design rests on a small group of designers with an outsized record at the Oscars and BAFTAs, and on London costume houses…
Mylène Farmer turned 65 on 12 September. Her 13th album, Égrégore, arrives on 30 October, with a cinema premiere three days before.
Four girls, one farmstead in the Altmark, a century of silence: Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize winner makes the house itself the protagonist.
Pirosmani's record price dates from 2018, not this month. The real story is the painting's chain of owners, starting with Stefan Zweig in Moscow in…
By Tessa Nolan Vladimir Nabokov arrived in England in the spring of 1919 with a butterfly net, a schoolboy’s English, and no country to go…
A lost annotated novel, a bench at Leicester Square and Anthony Hopkins: George Feifer's own account of the coincidence Hopkins still tells.
From Julia Roberts in 1999 to an unshaven model at MM6 x Havaianas in Milan: how body hair went from accident to campaign to runway,…
The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum until July 2027. How it crossed the Channel, why tickets vanished, and where to see the Reading…
The BFI London Film Festival turns 70: 251 works from 88 countries, 7 to 18 October, opening with Elsinore. What to book and how.