ARTS

Sound and vision from the past, present and future

Helen Garner and “the constant onwardrushingness of life”

Helen Garner and “the constant onwardrushingness of life”

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"There aren’t many authors who could compel me to read a five-page essay on the actor Russell Crowe, much less to read that essay twice"

The strangest rooms in the world | Why I love (and am slightly fearful of) the Thorne Rooms in Chicago

The strangest rooms in the world | Why I love (and am slightly fearful of) the Thorne Rooms in Chicago

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"These miniatures are less doll’s house than haunted house"

Murder in Mendocino

Murder in Mendocino

by Richard Bence

One man's Murder, She Wrote pilgrimage to the real life Cabot Cove

The new booklovers | London’s best new bookstores

The new booklovers | London’s best new bookstores

by Neil D.A. Stewart

London's unusual and exciting new bookshops

Review: The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

by Neil D.A. Stewart

A new novel from the onetime bad girl of American letters is disarmingly big-hearted, empathetic and moving – and haunted by past fictions

Venice and peril 2016 | <em>A World of Fragile Parts</em>

Venice and peril 2016 | A World of Fragile Parts

by Pippa Brooks

In the age of acid rain, mass tourism and terrorism, should we be making facsimile backups of the world's treasures?

State of the American art

State of the American art

by George Reynolds

"Watching this sort of film in 2016 is a question of how much of your curate's egg you can stomach being revolting before you throw up"

Hotel du Lac revisited

Hotel du Lac revisited

by Derek Guthrie

" I stepped out on to my little balcony several times to view the water and distant mountains, and not once was the air like milk. Not even the condensed stuff, which I like"

Heavy holiday reading | My travels with Proust

Heavy holiday reading | My travels with Proust

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Neil Stewart travels through the 4000+ pages of Marcel Proust's masterwork via Brazil, Scotland, Turkey and Australia

Coining it in

Coining it in

by Deborah Charles

Deborah Charles on how Fellini reinvented Rome: "After the austerity of fascism and rationing, La Dolce Vita was sexy, glamorous and magnificent"