Dorian Lynskey

1 month ago | msn.com | Dorian Lynskey

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Dorian Lynskey

It is a tad obnoxious for Michael Lewis, perhaps America’s most consistently successful nonfiction author, to open his new book by boasting that a previous one sold half a million copies, but bear with him. The book in question was 2018’s The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis smartly responded to Donald Trump’s first administration with profiles of a handful of unknown federal government employees in order to valorise what Trump scorned and highlight the cost of breaking it.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Dorian Lynskey

“What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand,” says Jason Isaacs with a confidential smile. Isaacs is currently starring in Mike White’s addictive, award-winning drama The White Lotus, an anthology that takes place in a different branch of the titular luxury hotel each season, with an almost entirely different ensemble of diversely brilliant actors and a new murder mystery to unravel.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Dorian Lynskey

Jason Watkins estimates that he’s acted in about 120 plays over the past 40 years. He graduated from Rada in 1985, in a standout year that included Ralph Fiennes, Jane Horrocks and Iain Glen. Long before he became a familiar face on screen, as prime minister Harold Wilson in The Crown, a BBC bureaucrat in W1A and a prissy music teacher in the Nativity! series, the theatre was his home, not to mention where he met his first and second wives. His latest play is a big one by any measure.

2 months ago | independent.co.uk | Dorian Lynskey

In FocusOrwell conjured up the ultimate dictatorship to illustrate how anti-democratic leaders use brazen deceit to prove and magnify their power, writes his biographer Dorian Lynskey. Never has his warnings about hypocrisy and doublethink been more relevant It has been a tricky week for conservatives who thought they could support both Donald Trump and Ukraine.