In times like these, I'm drawn to short stories, novels and expressive memoirs with a powerful sense of faraway places: enigmatic flights of fantasy. In the 1920s, pioneering French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry crossed “a desert as smooth as marble” to open new mail routes across the Sahara. Your memories of Read more…
Drawing gives me something to hold on to My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer on Christmas Eve and he called me at 6 pm to tell us. We had no idea. He was going to auditions, but he didn't tell us. He quickly became ill, to the point where my sister and I had to switch Read more…
As the United States struggled with the Great Depression in 1933, 25 artists were commissioned to paint murals depicting aspects of Californian life on the walls of Coit Tower in San Francisco. They were paid at least US$$ 25 per week – the equivalent of around £400 today. In charge of embellishing buildings Read more…
Tom Hanks has always found the military or quasi-military uniform of a much-loved authority figure to his liking: that sensitive, slightly rheumatic look is often seen under a peaked cap or dented helmet. He was the container ship captain in Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips, the heroic pilot of Read more…
This month, in theory, the latest sequel to Jurassic World returns to production on a London soundstage. And Wednesday – July 1st – was the day that Hollywood studios and TV producers planned to resume production in the United States. In fact, Read more…
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