What to watch this weekend
Escape from prison with Clint Eastwood or plumb the ocean’s depths with Sir David Attenborough
SCREENWRITERS ARE biased towards the extraordinary: the higher the stakes, the faster viewers’ pulses will be. One of this week’s titles will deliver an adrenaline boost, courtesy of Clint Eastwood attempting a prison break. But most feature ordinary people living ordinary lives. They prove that everyday occurrences need not be dull. Becoming a parent, building a business out of a kitchen, falling in and out of love—quotidian lives offer drama aplenty.
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What Superman tells you about American foreign policy
Should a man who can do anything choose to do nothing?
Handling feelings with rubber gloves: the odd life of Muriel Spark
An abandoned son, scorned lovers and dazzling, manipulative prose
Why the left gains nothing from pop stars’ support
Artists are entitled to share their views. Doing so is not always noble or wise
What to watch this weekend
Stories of tennis players, chefs and rock stars
Stop crying your heart out—for Oasis have returned to the stage
They are much more popular today than their Britpop peers
Inside the uneasy, incongruous coalition of the Big Three
A new book traces the wartime relationship between Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin