The Duchess’s Downfall
If you are one of the millions of people who tuned into the superbly crafted mini-series A Very British Scandal, you will be familiar with...
Doctor shock And The Grudge That Turned To Murder
It started as a simple case of an ingrowing toenail. It ended with four men involved in a doorstep killing… IT’S A nuisance. It’s just...
SPACEY PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ASSAULTS
Hollywoodstar Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty to historic sexual assault charges. The 62-year-old actor appeared at London's Old Bailey to enter the plea, which...
THE MAN WHO ENRICHED LONDON
In a new book, Michael McCarthy charts the life and times of the medieval mayor who left London in a much better condition than he...
ANA DE ARMAS HEAVY METAL THRILLS FANS AT LONDON PREMIERE
While Ben Affleck was celebrating tying the knot with Jennifer Lopez, his former par tner Ana de Armas was also facing the world with her...
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber by Sean O’Driscoll
“On the evening of 26 April 1974, four thieves armed with AK-47s broke into Russborough House in County Wicklow, the vast Palladian pile belonging to...
BORN EVILS?
TWO TEENAGERS COMMITTED A DOUBLE MURDER AND THEN WENT ON THE RUN When news broke that Carl and Sarah Collier had been murdered by their...
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser
Avid online readers may already have encountered this book’s titular essay, In 2019, CJ Hauser, a little-known novelist, used a Gulf Coast bird-watching trip and...
Hiking from hut to hut in the Bavarian Alps
The case for backpacking in the Bavarian Alps almost makes itself, “Spend your days trekking steep trails and meeting random people.” Fill up on dramatic...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
More than half a century after Robert Colescott adopted a provocative new style, his paintings “continue to make people nervous,” Working with little support from...
A solo cruise along the Italian Riviera
The Italian Riviera is heaven on earth if you know not to focus your visit on any particular destination, “It’s not unlike sitting in a...
SHARES MEMORIES OF HIS MOTHER DIANA
It’s an image of two global icons clearly enjoying each other’s company and one that takes pride of place in the Californian home of the...
GEMMA ATKINSON IS LAID BACK ABOUT WEDDING PLANS WITH GORKA
As much as Gemma Atkinson misses the fact that her daughter is no longer a tiny baby – “It goes really quickly” – the fitness...
Saint-Paul de Vence, French Riviera
STAYFalling head over heels for Château Saint-Martin & Spa (3) is easy. Encircled by rosescented gardens that appear to go on forever, and outfitted in...
reviews an exhibition in a private gallery: Joel Meyerowitz
Since the 1960s, Joel Meyerowitz (b.1938) has been one of the foremost photographic chroniclers of American life, capturing the streets, landscapes and ephemera of his...
Review of Book: Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
This “terrific” memoir should have been titled A History of Jarvis in 100 Objects, Clearing out the attic of his London house, the former lead...
Three sailing adventures from British shores
A whelk boat in NorfolkThe north Norfolk coast is a “heartswelling” region of vast, widescreen skies and shifting horizontals, and there can be few better...
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning reunite to celebrate ten years
It is not only the searing temperatures that will make the summer of 2022 memorable for best friends Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, as they...
Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
by Tim Miller “Too often, when straining to put some daylight between themselves and the Trump administration, regretful Republicans have reached for elaborate excuses and...
American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams
The National Gallery’s new Robert Adams retrospective is “one of the most moving and important exhibitions at the museum in a long time,” “American Silence,”...
IN LAS VEGAS FOR A SECRET CEREMONY JENNIFER LOPEZ AND BEN AFFLECK GET MARRIED
J-Lo became Mrs Jennifer Lynn Affleck last week in a love story denouement even the best Hollywood scriptwriters couldn’t have come up with. Twenty years...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Miranda Seymour’s “slyly compelling” biography of the novelist Jean Rhys is “shot through with madness,” “Half its cast are half crazy”— Rhys included—and “most of...
PAOLA MARZOTTO
BEATRICE BORROMEO’S MOTHER WELCOMES US TO LADY OF THE NIGHT, HER PARADISE IN PUNTA DEL ESTE Paola Marzotto is a fascinating woman, one who combines...
Why Staples keeps singing
Mavis Staples is determined to keep singing, The gospel icon, 83, grew up singing with her family ensemble, the Staple Singers, and in recent decades...
Johnson’s shades of ambivalence
Dakota Johnson has very mixed feelings about her breakout movie, said Britt Hennemuth in Vanity Fair. The daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith,...
A hidden Van Gogh self-portrait
Researchers at the National Galleries of Scotland have discovered what is almost certainly “a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh”, A routine X-ray scan...
A classic 1990s cathedral
England’s modern cathedrals tend to be “creations of the eras in which they were conceived”, – from the Gothic revivalism of Liverpool’s Edwardian cathedral to...
Cycling slowly around the Mani Peninsula
A mountainous region in the far south of Greece, the Mani Peninsula has had a “world’s edge” reputation since the earliest days of civilisation. One...
Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko
When, on New Year’s Eve 2018, Volodymyr Zelensky “interrupted his own show” to announce on national television that he was standing as Ukraine’s president, “many...
Exhibition of the week Vivian Maier: Anthology
This show marks the first time that the photography of Vivian Maier has ever been shown in the UK, said Sarah Kent on The Arts...