David Mitchell Archives

The Wolf of Oxford Street meets the Big Short Skirt in this unsubtle satire

Joyce Glasser reviews Greed (February 21, 2020), Cert. 15, 104 min. That Michael Winterbottom is interested in very rich people and the gap between them and everyone else, there can be no doubt. The L ...

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The Bard, according to Robert Greene, was no great shakes

Robert Tanitch reviews The Upstart Crow at Gielgud Theatre, London W1 The Upstart Crow uses the same characters and many of the same actors who were in the hugely popular BBC TV series; but is not an ...

Mark 536 views 0 likes Feb 20, 2020

Literature: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, J. M. Barrie, David Mitchell and Poets

Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 4 (2019) Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels by Janet Todd (Andre Deutsch £20). Austen’s popularity is undiminished. Her novels are regularly filmed for ...

Mark 536 views 0 likes Dec 6, 2019

Making Hay while the sun (hopefully) shines

26 May to 4 June Hay-on-Wye, Wales The Hay Festival is one of the world’s top literary festivals, staged in the small town of Hay-on-Wye on the Wales-England border. This year the Hay Festival i ...

Mark 1446 views 1 likes Apr 28, 2017