Sunday links
As I fly back to the UK through multiple Sunday timezones, here are links to articles and videos that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as usual to those who have pointed me towards some of more
As I fly back to the UK through multiple Sunday timezones, here are links to articles and videos that I have found interesting or stimulating over the past seven days. Thanks as usual to those who have pointed me towards some of more
A somewhat truncated list from my post-Shakespeare Live! holiday... normal service to be resumed next week. • Lonely rangers - the dark side of westerns: Michael Newton for the Guardian on an excellent BFI Southbank season, Ride Lonesome: more
Links to interesting stuff from the past week. • How offshore firm helped billionaire change the art world for ever: the first of two stories about what the Panama Papers reveal about the high end of the art market, this more
Each day I highlight three things. Sometimes there are connections between them, oftentimes there not. • A new Whitney: Michael Kimmelman reviews Manhattan's latest museum, with great use of embedded video and graphics (above) in a spectacular online essay from The more
Interesting things from the past week and more, with sincere thanks as well as apologies to those who pointed me towards some of them, and who I have failed to acknowledge below. • Grammys 2015: transcript of Bob Dylan's MusiCares more
After seeing Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi's very fine film yesterday (above), with the incomparable Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, this clip - which I have featured before - picked itself - it's from Jean-Luc Godard's more
So I was thinking I would find something a bit different as the lead for this week's Links. Not Shakespeare again, nor movies or television. Then I read one of the scariest pieces of prose to have come my way more
After a weekend off when I was occupied with the Coronation re-run, Links... returns with a lede devoted to the late Allan Dwan. What? Who? Born in 1885 and living until 1981, Dwan was a Canadian more
There's one straight-up, stand-out recommendation this week, Eric Naiman's lengthy essay for The Times Literary Supplement, When Dickens met Dostoevsky. It's the tale of a notable literary hoax about an alleged meeting encounter between the two authors in more
Let's start with the first trailer, released this week, for Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing (a still from which is above). Might he just have pulled off something truly special? For further background on the film, which opens in more