By Tessa Nolan When Mattel unveiled its “Women in Film” Barbie range in January 2024 – just three months after the Writers Guild of America…
By Tessa Nolan On 20 March 1988, a reggae track written by two of pop’s most prolific songwriters and originally buried as a B-side on…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Lisbon boy boarded a flight bound for Moscow, carrying a scholarship, a head full of socialist…
By Tessa Nolan When Angie Kim’s debut novel Miracle Creek landed in 2019, it arrived with the quiet authority of a book that had been…
By Tessa Nolan In July 2025, Amy Sherald did something no artist of her stature had done before at the Smithsonian: she walked away. The…
By Tessa Nolan Something peculiar is happening to Agatha Christie on British television. The Queen of Crime, whose novels have sold more than two billion…
By Tessa Nolan I drove up to the Lake District expecting rain. I got it, of course. That relentless, misty drizzle that seems to seep…
By Tessa Nolan You know, there’s a specific kind of smugness that comes with being a critic. It’s not pretty, I admit that. But when…
By Tessa Nolan So the numbers are out for the new Paul Thomas Anderson film. And the verdict is in. It’s a flop. A bomb.…
By Tessa Nolan So, they’ve made a spin-off of Money Heist. Of course they have. A prequel about Berlin, the elegant, psychopathic jewel thief. Because when…