Tim Lewis

1 month ago | msn.com | Tim Lewis

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Tim Lewis

The awards season for films ended last Sunday with the Oscars. Though I make absolutely zero claim on having any Mystic Meg capabilities,this time around it turned out that I had interviewed both Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison, respective winners of this year’s best actor and actress, for the Observer. Asked whether they believed they were in with a chance they answered the only way an actor can in their situation: by not really answering the question at all.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Tim Lewis

Percival Everett’s ingenious novel James was indisputably one of the books of 2024: it was the winner of the National Book Award for fiction in the US and shortlisted for the Booker prize in the UK. The plot is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, except this time round the narrator is Jim, Huck’s enslaved sidekick.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Tim Lewis

I live in Torino [Turin], a town where I grew up, where I was born. There’s a famous dish from there called bagna cauda. It’s a meeting of the garlic from the area of Piedmont, the mountains, with the anchovies coming from the sea in Liguria. It’s a very simple dish, a bit like a broth, perfect in winter, and you eat it with raw vegetables of the season. But there’s so much garlic in it that, when you eat it, you need a couple of days away from other people.

2 months ago | thecritic.co.uk | Tim Lewis

There is no such thing as “wrongful birth” The BBC recently ran a story about couples who had been wrongly informed by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust that their unborn children were at risk of serious abnormality and strongly encouraged to abort. Two couples were subsequently informed the tests were “false positives” and that they had aborted children who did not have the health issues they were originally diagnosed with.