An academic on the run in 1970s Brazil; a Saharan search for a missing daughter; an animated childhood in ’60s Japan...

Nouvelle Vague Various cinemas Blue Moon Available on streaming services Though cinema is the youngest art form – the tenth Muse, or seventh art, as the French have sometimes called it – it isn’t nece

George Saunders Vigil 192pp. Bloomsbury. £18.99. Four years after publishing Lincoln in the Bardo (TLS, March 10, 2017), George Saunders hinted that he was drawn to writing a longer second novel, capt

We know Donald Trump thinks of himself as a cinéaste. His method of repeatedly consuming Jean-Claude Van Damme’s gaudy 1988 thump-’em-up Bloodsport by fast-forwarding through the non-fighting scenes –

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Santiago Munez holds the unique honour of being a Newcastle United cult hero, despite never having played a competitive game for the club. That’s because he’s fictional. He’s a character, the protagon