John Cheever
July 2024
- Book of the dayStrange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lionsA concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy
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The Affair is compelling television - but will we ever get the truth?
Dominic West and Ruth Wilson’s The Affair demands us to be the jury, weighing the lies of a pair of lovers as they tell the different sides to their story. But who are we supposed to trust – and how will we reach a final judgement?
April 2015
Why did we see Don Draper reading Dante’s Inferno in Mad Men?
The books that the show’s characters read are more than just period props – they offer eagle-eyed fans an extra insight into their thinking. As we get ready to close the chapter on the final series, a librarian at the New York Public Library has published the definitive Mad Men reading list
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