Novelist Maaza Mengiste on how the Nobel laureate has explored exile in all its forms throughout his careerFor more than three decades, Abdulrazak Gurnah has been writing with a quiet and unwavering conviction about those relegated to the forgotten cor…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats ordeal: let’s hope it doesn’t spawn a sequel
The theatre impresario was so stung by the dismal film that he became a dog lover – but he mustn’t let this give him any ideasNow that the dust is starting to settle, it’s becoming more and more apparent that Cats caused Covid. Think about it. All the …
Nintendo Switch OLED review – a luxury upgrade to a brilliant console
With its larger, brighter display and array of useful updates, this sleek new version of the Switch is expensive but desirableI will be for ever grateful to the Nintendo Switch for saving my sanity during the two most trying periods of my life: my firs…
The Long Song review – a vivid, harrowing staging of Andrea Levy’s novel
Chichester Festival theatreTara Tijani and Llewella Gideon are superb in this unblinking portrait of dignity amid moral horror, which follows a Jamaican woman looking back on her lifeAn additional sting in the tragedy of the death of Andrea Levy at the…
Reservation Dogs: the trippy teen comedy you’ll want to rewatch immediately
Hollywood’s weirdo-in-chief Taika Waititi serves up a fresh take on teens desperate to ditch their dead-end town with this strange, astounding show No more satisfying a setting for a TV show than “scratched-out craptown peopled by criminal-leaning ecce…
Mass: the movie that dares to explore the unimaginable pain of school shootings
The devastating drama, by writer-director Fran Kranz, bridges the depressing familiarity and unthinkable grief of mass shootings in the US by focusing on the personalIt’s understandable if your first question of the movie Mass, set six years in the aft…
Ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin: ‘We owe it to younger dancers not to stay silent’
In her new memoir, New York City Ballet’s first Asian-American soloist speaks out about racism and sexual bullying in ballet. Now she wants to overhaul the industry from withinWhen Georgina Pazcoguin was 19 years old, she went to see a doctor about her…
The Guide #3: How Squid Game took over the world
In this week’s newsletter: a combination of Netflix’s marketing nous and an all-too-relatable dystopia has prove impossible to resistDon’t get the Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereSquid Game. When did you first encounter that strange pairing …
Athena review – teenage duellists take a hesitant stab at friendship
Yard theatre, LondonTwo vividly portrayed fencers shuffle towards a climactic battle in this smart, galvanising coming-of-age drama The verbal sparring is sharp and pointed in Gracie Gardner’s quick-witted play about two American high-schoolers trainin…
スパイ映画顔負けの逃亡劇の一部始終を「本人」が語るドキュメンタリー『カルロス・ゴーン 最後のフライト』
カリスマ経営者から一転、逃亡者へ──。世界でもトップニュース級の扱いを受けたカルロス・ゴーンの逮捕事件、そしてその後の逃亡劇の背景には、いかなる真相が詰まっていたのか。ゴーン本人を含む関係者へのインタヴューに基づくドキュメンタリーの様相を、映画ジャーナリストの立田敦子がレヴューする。
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