For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Peter Conrad

From the August 2022 Issue

Return to Port Arthur

Nitram

By Justin Kurzel (dir)

From the July 2022 Issue

Calcutta Chronicle

The Big City

By Satyajit Ray

From the June 2022 Issue

Seventy Years On

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)

By Roger Michell (dir)

From the March 2022 Issue

It’s a Long Way to Hokkaido

Drive My Car

By Ryusuke Hamaguchi (dir)

From the December 2021 Issue

Come, Thick Night

The Tragedy of Macbeth

By Joel Coen (dir)

From the August 2021 Issue

Short Stories & Tall Tales

Hemingway

By Ken Burns & Lynn Novick (dir)

From the July 2021 Issue

Easy Writer

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

By Laura Fairrie (dir)

From the April 2021 Issue

Welcome to the Big Aubergine

Minari

By Lee Isaac Chung (dir)

From the March 2021 Issue

The Long & Winding Road

Nomadland

By Chloé Zhao (dir)

From the October 2020 Issue

Thinking Inside the Box

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

By Matt Wolf (dir)

From the June 2020 Issue

Ripples in the Pond

The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice

By Yasujirō Ozu (dir)

From the May 2020 Issue

Let’s Get This Show on the Road

Women Make Film

By Mark Cousins (dir)

From the March 2020 Issue

Star of the Silkscreen

Warhol: A Life as Art

By Blake Gopnik

From the December 2019 Issue

Dead Men’s Shoes

The Kingmaker

By Lauren Greenfield (dir)

From the October 2019 Issue

Generation Ex

Non-Fiction

By Olivier Assayas (dir)

From the September 2019 Issue

California Dreamin’

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Quentin Tarantino (dir)

From the July 2019 Issue

Tenor of the Age

Pavarotti

By Ron Howard (dir)

From the April 2019 Issue

Silvio Screen

Loro

By Paolo Sorrentino (dir)

From the February 2019 Issue

Don’t Call Him Ingrid

Bergman: A Year in a Life

By Jane Magnusson (dir)