Malin Hay is an editor at the LRB.
Early Wallace and Gromit character development (1989).© and TM Aardman Animations LTD, Wallace & Gromit LTD. Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Animation was invented in France, but plasticine was invented in Britain. In 1892, Charles-Émile Reynaud showed his Théâtre Optique for the first time in Paris: hundreds of hand-drawn images on...
When Francis Ford Coppola won the Razzie Award for Worst Director for his film Megalopolis last year, he responded with a long Instagram caption beneath a zoomed-in photo of his face.
I am thrilled to accept the Razzie Award … at a time when so few have the courage to go against the prevailing trends of contemporary moviemaking! In this wreck of a world today, where ART is given...
I thought I didn’t use ChatGPT because I was too clever. I thought that not using ChatGPT made me cleverer. It turns out, though, that it made me very bad at spotting when a text was written by or with the assistance of AI.
If there’s anything ironic about being so scared of telling the wrong joke that you run straight into the arms of the House of Saud, it seems lost on the Riyadh Comedy Festival performers, who have, on the whole, described their experiences in Riyadh as positive – or at least positive enough to clear their consciences.
Jane DeLynn last published a novel in 2002, when she was 56, but Semiotext(e) in the US and Divided in the UK have now reissued In Thrall (1982), her most personal work and, according to Colm Tóibín’s new introduction, ‘her masterpiece’. It’s set in the mid-1960s at a girls’ high school in Manhattan. Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks...
Bee Wilson joins Malin Hay to discuss Judy Garland’s years at MGM Studios, where she was mistreated and overworked by her employers but also made some of her best pictures, growing from a contract...
Since 1995, at least 51 young people have died in Scottish prisons. These include Katie Allan and William Lindsay, who shared strong support networks and, despite very different life experiences, died...
The Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth is a master of the collapsing relationship. In her twenty books, she turns her eye to estranged siblings, tormented lovers, demanding parents and disaffected colleagues...
Singing, acting, directing, writing: Barbra Streisand always insisted on doing it her way. Malin Hay, who recently reviewed Streisand’s 992-page autobiography, joins Tom to discuss her performances...
In his introduction to our twelfth LRB Collection, Sisters Come Second, Colm Tóibín writes that most siblings dream of being only children. Malin Hay explores this idea with Colm and...
Michael Wood talks to Malin Hay about the recent list from Sight and Sound of the ‘greatest films of all time’ (in which he voted), and what considerations could, or should, go into...
With the future of TikTok increasingly uncertain in the US and other countries, Malin Hay talks to Tom about the app’s powerful reading-focused corner, BookTok: what it is, how it works, and the...
Bee Wilson speaks to Malin Hay about Paul Newman’s mystique – his passivity, his domesticity and his irresistible blue eyes.
Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, was murdered with strychnine in 1905. Her killer was never discovered – until now (perhaps). James Lasdun talks to Malin Hay about a new book...
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