Critic’s notebook

He wrote some of the most successful plays of the last 50 years, including “Amadeus” and “Equus”. But Peter Shaffer had one major weakness: he wasn’t very good with words

This prolific novelist is little known to English-language readers. A new series of translations will introduce them to his sinister work

The career of music’s most well-travelled songwriter, whose latest album is inspired by flamenco

Donald Trump’s fans don’t care if he stretches the truth – they admire him for it. From the days of the Wild West, American culture has celebrated boasters and hoaxers

Every actor with something to prove longs
to play a character like Travis Bickle. But
forty years after “Taxi Driver” was made,
Robert De Niro has yet to meet his match