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4 weeks ago | 
anothermag.com | Katie Kitamura |Laura Allsop |TextLaura Allsop
The author and AnOther contributor’s fascinating new book looks at the truths our everyday performances mask, especially from the people who (think they) know us intimatelyLead Image Katie Kitamura’s new novel, Audition, begins in a state of Hitchcock-ian suspense. An unnamed female narrator finds herself in a faceless restaurant in New York’s financial district to meet a young man named Xavier who has recently blown into her life, convinced he is her son.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Laura Allsop
The question at the heart of Amanda Knox’s latest memoir Free: My Search For Meaning is a simple one: what are the life prospects for an exoneree? It follows 2013’s Waiting to be Heard, which detailed the Seattle student’s imprisonment in Italy before and after a wrongful murder conviction, and her fight for justice.
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1 month ago | 
anothermag.com | Laura Allsop
Bringing a modern lens to the work of Golden Age directors in a new season for the BFI, Karina Longworth spills the secrets of her hugely addictive podcast Karina Longworth has a penchant for things that are out of time, and ahead of it, too: as creator of the beloved podcast You Must Remember This, she has an almost preternatural sense for the pockets of Hollywood history soon to resurface in the popular consciousness.
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2 months ago | 
anothermag.com | Laura Allsop |TextLaura Allsop
With the arrival of her latest book Stag Dance, the author of Detransition, Baby discusses how symbols define identity, and why sisterhood is more than just solidarityLead Image Torrey Peters is thinking about legacies of autocracy across the Americas and how writers have survived right-wing governments through periods of exile.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Neal Pollack |Laura Allsop
This year’s Oscar nominations were always going to be more low-key than usual, overshadowed as they inevitably have been both by the fires in Los Angeles — which has led to repeated delays in their announcement — and by Donald Trump’s inauguration, the after-effects of which are still rippling in Hollywood circles days later.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | William Boyd |Freddy Gray |Philip Womack |Laura Allsop
The commissionThirty-four years ago, in the summer of 1990, I had a call from my Hollywood agent, Geoffrey Sanford. Lord Richard Attenborough, the film director, would like to meet me to discuss a project. I said “Yes, please,” instantly. The timing was good — I had delivered my fifth novel Brazzaville Beach to my publishers and was awaiting its autumn publication. I met Dickie, as everyone called him, with his co-producer and right-hand woman, Diana Carter, in Blake’s Hotel in west London.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Amelia Butler-Gallie |Deborah Ross |Nat Segnit |Laura Allsop
Sound the alarm: hypermasc beefcakes all over the world have an anniversary to celebrate! Beware women, children and the effete, this year marks the twenty-fifth birthday of both David Fincher’s notorious psychodrama Fight Club, adapted from the debut novel by Chuck Palahniuk, and Sam Mendes’s equally notorious American Beauty, which has gone from Oscar-winning acclaim to being a punchline on chat shows and animated comedies alike. If you haven’t seen Fight Club, shame on you.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Limor Simhony Philpott |Laura Allsop |Rod Liddle
Former president Donald Trump spent his Sunday afternoon sporting an apron standing in the drive-thru window of a Featersville-Trevose, Pennsylvania McDonald’s. From the window, the candidate handed out some fries and fielded some questions in what made for a masterful PR stunt. Oh and it’s also Vice President Kamala Harris’s birthday. “Happy birthday Kamala! She’s turning sixty. I think I’ll get her some flowers. Maybe I’ll get her some fries … I’ll get her a McDonald’s hamburger.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Gareth Roberts |Ben Domenech |Toby Young |Laura Allsop
Sexy time at the cinema is becoming a thing of the past. That’s according to research on the prevalence of vices in top live-action films from film maven Stephen Follows. His study shows that drug taking and violence are as popular on screen as ever in the twenty-first century. Profanity has dipped only slightly, but sex has dropped off a cliff since the year 2000. We used to love what they used to call a steamy blockbuster.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | John Steele Gordon |Melanie McDonagh |Laura Allsop |Rod Liddle
Vice President Kamala Harris was the first presidential candidate since Walter Mondale to skip the traditional Al Smith dinner, which raises money for Catholic Charities, and former president Donald Trump would not let her forget it. He called her absence “deeply disrespectful” to Catholics, earning applause from some in the audience.
