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In the series finale, showrunner Steven Zaillian suggests that Ripley is a major artist of his time. Read more in Vulture’s recap of Netflix’s ‘Ripley.’

If she looks like an enigma, that’s on purpose.

This exhibition about the carnival tradition in Britain is ‘rich in knowledge’ but ‘curiously joyless’

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite books of 2022.

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Brusatte, After Sappho by Schwartz, The Story of Art Without Men by Hessel and All Down Darkness Wide by Hewitt.

Her paintings, many of which focused on women’s experiences and perspectives, might depict fear or menace. But it was up to the viewer to fill in the blanks.

Can’t We Just Print More Money? by Patel and Meaning, Back in the Day by Bragg, Fix the System, Not the Women by Bates and My Name is Yip by Crewe.

Hans Holbein, Henry VIII’s painter and the subject of Franny Moyle’s vivid biography, profoundly affected how the Tudor age came to be viewed

Jeremy Bowen writes powerfully and sensibly, as always (“The war that cannot be won”, 28 May). I only met Benjamin Netanyahu once over breakfast in Israel shortly before he became prime minister, and I took an instant dislike to him – bombastic, vain, and histrionic. As he faces serious criminal charges, the outside world must hope that Yair Lapid succeeds in building an alternative coalition government, however doubtful that looks. When I was a student in the late Fifties, many spent th...

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Virago, 288pp, £16.99 “I am hardly qualified to write a biography of Carson McCullers,” writes Jenn Shapland. “I have read enough biographies to know, in no uncertain terms, that they are built of artifice and lies. I am not a fiction writer, and this is not a biography.” Instead, this book weaves together criticism,