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All The Light We Cannot See review: the flame fails to catch in this wartime epic

Despite an impressive young cast, the show is weighed down by the overabundance of plot

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2023

Why do so many people still love Friends? Because it reminds them of a time when life was still fun

The 90s were a decade of carefree optimism and comically low stakes. Matthew Perry’s death brings us crashing back into the now

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

OPINION - Authors fear the Bad Sex Award — bring it back

For three decades, authors scribbled away with the spectre of the Bad Sex Award judges looking over their shoulder. The award — run by the small Soho-based magazine Literary Review — names and shames writers for “redundant, poorly written or unnecessarily pornographic descriptions of sex in fiction”. It became so…

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2023

The Buccaneers on Apple TV+ review: Bridgertonised Wharton adaptation wraps a feminist fury in silk and lace

Even Whartonites might have cause to cheer at this incisive reworking of her final novel

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2023

White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head

In his latest brief but dazzling journey to the edges of understanding, the theoretical physicist takes us into the heart of a black hole and out the other side

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen

How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heroes from scrutiny

The Walrus · Oct 30, 2023

Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – amiable aimlessness

The celebrated writer’s new novel, about a widowed septuagenarian, opens strongly but can’t resolve the vast number of threads it starts to spin

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for Chaucer

Editorial: The latest collection to go online reveals the six centuries of influence of a medieval giant who predated the printed press

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Welcome to the golden age of celebrity memoirs, where authenticity sells

Britney's bombshell new memoir is the ultimate proof that performative radical honesty is in vogue right now, says Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2023

Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – a devilishly brilliant hidden gem

First published in 1973, Brooke’s dark tale of an upper-class coming-of-age is full of the kind of truth only fiction can deliver

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023