Jim Ashilevi: With depression, all manner of lightness seems utterly impossible | News
You could really do several different interviews because so many different things have happened at once. On the…
Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare – The Art Newspaper
Whodunnit? The British Library did it. That is, planned an exhibition dedicated to the queen of crime fiction,…
In ‘An American Fiction,’ Ronald Jackson Casts an Imagined Screenplay — Colossal
In the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, the irritable protagonist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison describes his work as follows: “I…
The 2018 role Michael B Jordan almost turned down because of his mother
Credit: Far Out / YouTube Still Mon 24 August 2026 3:30, UK It’s safe to say that very…
Is this America’s Jason Arday? The Black novelist, Jerry Falade, in an AI scandal
In the 2023 satirical movie American Fiction, the joke is that My Pafology, the “raw and real” manuscript…
Andrew Salgado’s Gestural Still Lifes Pulse with Energy — Colossal
A largely figurative painter with a penchant for literary citation, Andrew Salgado turns his attention to the still…
How novelists continue to be inspired by artists – The Art Newspaper
Soon after she started writing her sharp and gritty new novel, Exhibition, Alex Hyde went to see some…
Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian author of ‘Persepolis’, dies aged 56
Published on 04/06/2026 – 10:46 GMT+2•Updated 14:06 French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic…
Can Nolan’s Odyssey survive the culture war?
Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of The Odyssey has not yet reached cinemas, yet it has already started a…
The Hypochondriac’s Complaint – Public Books
It is difficult to be diagnosed as a hypochondriac. Though “hypochondriasis” remains in the World Health Organization’s International…
Word of the day: Irascible
Irascible is a word used to describe someone quick to anger or easily irritated. Whether in everyday interactions…
The triumph of anti-art – UnHerd
Interwar Paris was a world-historic cultural incubator, one of the most fertile periods in the history of art,…