Thomas Pynchon
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Yes, you should feel bad for not finishing (insert classic novel here)
- Culture
- September 28, 2019, 05:00
“I’ve never finished Proust or Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities or even The Brothers Karamazov,” Zadie Smith told the Guardian last week. I’m (...)

Asian cinema lights up Cannes but Star Wars gets the fireworks
- Film
- May 18, 2018, 05:00
As far as the outside world was concerned, Star Wars got Cannes 2018 back to the noisy prominence it so craves. Fireworks burst over the Croisette on (...)

Spoiler alert: People don’t hate spoilers . . . or do they?
- Film
- April 21, 2018
This article may contain spoilers. Possibly. The word has been so semantically unstable of late that we’re not entirely sure. Speaking to Benedict Cu(...)

A shortcut to immortality: kill the president
- Stage
- April 7, 2018, 05:00
“When I leave the stage I’ll be the most famous man in America,” John Wilkes Booth, one of the lesser lights in a 19th-century acting family, is alleg(...)

Sean Penn’s debut novel – repellent and stupid
- Books
- March 30, 2018, 12:25
Back in the heady days of 2015, it was thought that singer and eternal tester of patience Morrissey had taken the bad celebrity novel to the limit in (...)

Mute: A Berlin-set Bowie tribute that says nothing at all
- Film
- February 23, 2018
You can barely focus on Duncan Jones’s fourth feature for the mists of goodwill floating about the thing. Following the disaster that was Warcraft, th(...)

Directing Daniel Day-Lewis: ‘I know. I’ve killed off the world’s greatest actor’
- Film
- January 27, 2018
There is no Hallmark card or self-help brochure that says “so you’ve ruined Daniel Day-Lewis”, but if there were I’d be handing one over to Paul Thoma(...)

Dream designs at Jonnmar’s new Donnybrook showroom
- Interiors
- December 9, 2017, 06:00
“Dream tonight of peacock tails and diamond fields . . .” wrote Thomas Pynchon in his richly imaginative novel V. The newly opened Jonnmar showroom in(...)

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine review: Suffering single white females
- Books
- February 18, 2017, 06:00
“B and I were both petite, pale, and prone to sunburn. We had dark hair, pointy chins, and skinny wrists; we wore size six shoes. If you reduced each (...)

Folk hero: Richard Fariña’s wild ride from Tyrone to Greenwich
- Culture
- August 12, 2016, 17:00
He is almost forgotten now, but 50 years ago Richard Fariña seemed poised for fame. The only issue was whether he would follow a literary or a musical(...)