A war of nerves

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

SOME DAYS IT SEEMS WE LIVE IN A HORRID WORLD where most humans couldn’t give a fig about art. How many people in that world are going to care about a 65-year-old black-and-white movie—one that, for an

Underworlds Alexander Podrabinek Between Prison and Freedom Memoir ...

The acclaimed film director has made a name for herself with stylish, visually rich narratives that spotlight the female perspective. She talks to Lydia Slater about her genre-spanning back catalogue

A Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis