Isabel Davis on ‘Paradise Regained’, episode 2 of ‘Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection’, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon. Philippe Mercier, ‘The Music Party’ (1733), Oil on canvas, Royal Collection Trust. This week I caught up on Andrew Graham-Dixon’s series ‘Art, Passion
Joseph Brooker on The Death of Stalin Armando Iannucci’s film The Death of Stalin (2017) seemed to me to come out of nowhere, though it’s based on a French comic strip that most of its British viewers will never have heard of before. We knew
Joseph Brooker on SS-GB In a self-referential high point of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle (1962), two characters debate whether a fiction depicting an ‘alternate present’ belongs to the science fiction genre, unaware that they are in a novel of alternate