
ART, FILM, BOOKS, THEATRE, TV & MUSIC
What We’re Looking Forward to in 2021
So apart from the obvious (vaccinations, freedom, holidays!), there are a lot of things that we’re looking forward to this year. From the first issue of Vogue Scandinavia this Spring to the very-delayed James Bond film No Time to Die (at last!) to a new Adele album. Read on for much, much more.



We hope to be reading a lot this year and there are some great titles coming. Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since he won the Nobel prize for Literature in 2017 is Klara and the Sun about an artificial friend waiting in a shop to be bought by a human (Faber, March). Edmund de Waal tells the story of a a belle époque family and their private art collection in Letters to the Camondo (Chatto, April). Zadie Smith rewrites the story of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath Prologues to London’s Kilburn High Road in The Wife of Willesden (Hamish Hamilton, June). Colm Tóibín’s new book, The Magician, is about the German novelist Thomas Mann living in exile in LA during WWII (Viking, September) and if you liked Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Ketteridge books then her new novel O, William! is out in September (Viking).
Films we can’t wait to see include The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson inspired by The New Yorker and starring Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Timothée Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan and Léa Seydoux. Timothée Chalamet also stars in the remake of Dune, there’s a new Fantastic Beasts film being released and Tom Cruise returns in Top Gun: Maverick. And Peter Jackson’s new Beatles documentary, Get Back sounds like a don’t-miss with over 56 hours of unseen footage.