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Stuart Jeffries

Stuart Jeffries is a feature writer

March 2025

  • William S Burroughs Crazy Man, 1988.

    William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

    Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis
  • The North Pole 1990 2 - Erling Kagge

    Book of the day
    The North Pole: The History of an Obsession by Erling Kagge review – an adventure that can’t be topped

    The Norwegian explorer – who in 1990 became the first to reach 90 degrees north without the help of machine nor beast – journeys into the past to uncover the myths, politics and pure joy of the northernmost point on Earth
  • Watch out for Smashy McDeathrock …

    Book of the day
    A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World by Tom Phillips review – apocalypse not

    A gag-filled doomscroll through the history of armageddon demonstrates that, for some, the end has always been nigh

February 2025

  • Composite of images from the three films

    This is the year the Oscars found God – but can they keep the faith?

    From Conclave to The Brutalist to A Real Pain, films about religion are unusually well represented at the Academy Awards – some with decidedly unorthodox themes

January 2025

  • A stadium crowd cheering, arms and hands raised in celebration

    Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by Dan Hancox review – a hymn to coming together

  • Black and white portrait of Lynne Tillman, sitting in a chair and looking to the left.

    American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman review – thoughts for the day

December 2024

  • Tariq Ali<br>British political activist Tariq Ali speaks at a demonstration in Piccadilly, London, in front of the flag of the Fourth International, a socialist organisation formed by followers of Leon Trotsky, UK, 30th June 1973. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali review – an exasperating entertainment

  • The Monk by the Sea, 1808-1810. Found in the collection of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

    Caspar David Friedrich: the racked Romantic painter who inspired Beckett and Bambi

November 2024

  • ‘I was absolutely petrified of the man’ … Samuel Beckett in 1973.

    My best shot
    Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

    ‘One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. “These are wonderful pictures,” he said’
  • Philharmonia Orchestra - Herbert Blomstedt and pianist Maria João Pires. Credit Tom Howard (6)

    More endurance than you can shake a stick at: does conducting keep you young?

    The 97-year-old Herbert Blomstedt is in London today to conduct the Philharmonia. He is one of a very long line of maestros working well into old age
  • Louis Armstrong leads his bandsmen and local trumpeters on arrival at the airport in Accra, Ghana on 30 May, 1956.

    Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths

    Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister

October 2024

  • ‘You’ve always got to have a caveat – that this could have happened without climate change’ … Alex Burkill.

    ‘You don’t want to waste time on climate change’: TV weather’s big problem with the environmental crisis

    Lack of time, difficulties with scientific rigour, an uninterested public … television meteorologists open up about why they’re so quiet about the reasons for extreme conditions
  • Robert Longo.

    ‘What can I say? We saw the future’: artist Robert Longo on AI, Keanu and his vast mirrorball of death

    Since directing Johnny Mnemonic and a making a sculpture from 40,000 bullets, the New Yorker has returned to the stunning photorealistic drawings that made him famous. He takes us round his latest show
  • mental health and mindfulness concept. steps leading to a bright sky. 3D Rendering<br>2K6G63R mental health and mindfulness concept. steps leading to a bright sky. 3D Rendering

    Your Journey, Your Way by Horatio Clare review – the Martin Lewis of mental health

    Inspired by his own breakdown, the author’s generous and deeply researched guide to navigating mental health care in the UK is full of wisdom and hope

September 2024

  • Frank Bruno in thee ring at the Frank Bruno Foundation he set up to help people with mental health problems.

    TV review
    Four Kings review – boxing should be banned

  • ‘If in doubt, put a swan on it’ … Hume at his studio.

    Artist Gary Hume: ‘I use sex less now – but I still find the world an erotic place’

August 2024

  • The author Vigdis Hjorth

    If Only by Vigdis Hjorth review – love will tear her apart

  • Joan Brady at her home in Oxford, 2015. She translated life into fiction, and turned to thriller writing after a legal battle with her local council.

    Joan Brady obituary

July 2024

  • Linford Christie

    TV review
    Linford review – the scenes about the racist fetishisation of his genitals are heartbreaking

  • Paul Foot

    Book of the day
    Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn review – revolutionary intellect or posh trot?

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