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Don’t Worry Darling is a derivative let-down

Olivia Wilde’s film about an idyllic 1950s community reflects modern anxieties but has little new to say.

Photo of Don’t Worry Darling is a derivative let-down

Industry is porn posing as prestige TV

Industry is porn posing as prestige TV

Ann Manov

The billion-dollar battle to make The Rings of Power

Oscar Williams

Book of the Day

The vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Rowan Williams

Lucian Freud’s pitiless style

Michael Prodger

Inside Man is the TV equivalent of a game of chess

Inside Man is the TV equivalent of a game of chess

Rachel Cooke

The raucous return of Pussy Riot

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”

Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”

Rachel Cooke

Hilary Mantel’s complex, conflicted Thomas Cromwell

Hilary Mantel’s complex, conflicted Thomas Cromwell

Rowan Williams

From the NS archive: The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel

From the NS archive: The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel

Sophie Elmhirst

Why we need Hilary Mantel’s critical snark

Why we need Hilary Mantel’s critical snark

Helen Lewis

Reviews

Radio & Podcasts

Why rare earth metals “hold the key to our future”

Anna Leszkiewicz

Book of the Day

The “Five Eyes” spies who fought the West’s secret wars

Jeremy Bowen

Henry Marsh confronts his mortality

Book of the Day

Henry Marsh confronts his mortality

Kathleen Jamie

The long shadow of Chairman Mao

Katie Stallard

Moonage Daydream is a lavish and loving profile of David Bowie

Ryan Gilbey

What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer

What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer

Peter Wilby

Interviews

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”

Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Anne-Marie Imafidon Q&A: "Men have often forgotten that women even exist"

Anne-Marie Imafidon Q&A: “Men have often forgotten that women even exist”

New Statesman

Fifty years of Richard Mabey’s Food for Free

Fifty years of Richard Mabey’s Food for Free

Alice Vincent

The long read

Death for her was a political act: why the Queen chose Scotland

Death for her was a political act: why the Queen chose Scotland

Elizabeth II did nothing by accident, including her final journey to Balmoral. Was she loading the dice for the Union?

By Tanya Gold