Democracy on the ballot

A new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is enrapturing and impressive

Theater

The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature

Amelia Butler-Gallie

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver reviewed

Michael Arditti

Not for life, but until we could be confident they’d learned the error of their ways

Deborah Ross

Film

A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022

Tom Meek

Television
April 18, 2022
Around and around the world
Masterpiece has brought Around the World in 80 Days to the small screen
Timothy Jacobson
Books
March 24, 2022
Waugh in Hollywood
Seventy-five years ago, Evelyn Waugh headed to Hollywood to sell Brideshead Revisited
Alexander Larman
Art
February 17, 2020
Some of the best Austen adaptations are the most unfaithful
Undoubtedly the freshest version of Emma was the one that looks least like it: Clueless
Claire Harman