The Chimera
Tom BarrieA newsletter of high and low culture read by 400k+ readers in the last two years
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 74 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 24 days ago |
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Wait, SNL UK was… good?
When they announced a British edition of Saturday Night Live back in 2025, it seemed doomed to fail.
Comedy travels about as well as clotted cream on a hot train; it ages even faster. TV history is littered with the mangled corpses of prev...
The unlikely story of a North Korean blockbuster
Author’s note: you should probably only believe about 80 per cent of the following story.
By 1978, Choi Eun-hee was beginning to get a little desperate.
In the 1950s and 60s, Choi had been widely considered the most popular actress in Sou...
You wouldn’t have liked the Beatles
Like many men, I spend hours of my life every week with Dominic Sandbrook. The guy’s disembodied voice floats freely in my head, gently chiding my worldview, informing me that all sorts of nice liberal preconceptions I had about things like...
The 1920s masterpiece you’ve never heard of
This is the first post I’ve sent out since breaking 3,000 subscribers. Thank you!
I have some housekeeping. I’ve recently accepted what amounts to a full-time project and so am likely going to publish a little less here. It won’t be a big...
I watched 127 films last year. Here’s what I thought of them (Pt. II)
This is part two of a wider review of some of the films I watched last year (though by no means all of which came out in 2025 itself). As you might have worked out by now, it’s essentially just an excuse to write up some mini-reviews of a v...
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London-based freelance journalist and writer. Longlisted for the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism 2025, winner of the Futurist Letters “Dispatches” short story competition. Find my bylines in British GQ, Wired, The Face and more.
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