Nina Caplan

Drink

The mourning after the night before

• 23 January 2012

Drink

Show you’re lush for life

• 19 December 2011

What better time than Christmas, asks Nina Caplan, to guzzle as much good booze as you can?

Drink

Much more than caffeine culture

• 28 November 2011

Nina Caplan explores our enduring fascination with the seductive and addictive taste of the best coffee, and the orientalised history behind it.

Drink

Rich and red and laced with politics

• 10 November 2011

Nina Caplan launches her Drink column for the New Statesman with a tour of that most unlikely of bibulous states — Lebanon.

Film

One Day (12A)

• 24 August 2011
• 1 comment

A romcom should improve on reality, not reduce it.

Film

The Skin I Live In (15)

• 18 August 2011
• 1 comment

Almodóvar offers up a story of twisted beauty.

Film

Seeing red

• 12 May 2011

Soviet cinema had a brief but remarkable flowering in the 1920s.

Books

Shooting is an act of love

• 27 January 2011

François Truffaut was a man with the soul of a child – or so said Spielberg. Nina Caplan remembers a director who specialised in youthful illusion and misdirected desire.

Drink

Just pour me bubbles, darling

• 17 December 2009

Fiction

Last Night in Twisted River

• 15 October 2009