Playing the long game
Books and ArtsPaul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
A concert begun in darkness
Books and ArtsRemembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
Books and ArtsA Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
Books and ArtsThe movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Books and ArtsDaniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Friends creator falls victim to white guilt
Insane apologies in woke world
Bracing for the tension of Better Call Saul
The show is about to end with all the fervor we might have wished for
July 1, 2022
Ezra Miller needs help
A number of parents have taken out restraining orders against the actor
June 28, 2022
Kevin Spacey’s transatlantic fall from grace
The British legal system will decide his fate
June 24, 2022
In search of a credible Elvis movie
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic is fun but too cartoonish to capture the legend
June 14, 2022
The Jurassic series is ready for its asteroid
It’s become an exercise in high-budget pointlessness
June 12, 2022
The welcome return of The Kids in the Hall
Only the 90s could have given us something so bizarre and anarchic
June 5, 2022
Stranger Things and the perils of nostalgia
Its version of the Eighties is oddly benign
June 2, 2022
Hollywood has a school violence problem
So much for escapism
June 1, 2022
America has lost her Top Gun spirit
And no well-intentioned sequel can pretend otherwise
May 26, 2022
Deep water Winslow
Books and ArtsWinslow Homer has been put out to sea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diaries from Eighties New York
Books and ArtsDuncan Hannah chronicles growing up and getting down in Eighties New York
Is Hans Zimmer a genius or a charlatan?
Books and ArtsA Zimmer score is seldom less than a pleasure to listen to, as has been the case for decades
Throwing curveballs
Books and ArtsRace and sex in Paradise Square and Take Me Out
The final word on the millennial generation
Books and ArtsThe Worst Person in the World’s ticking clock makes it both urgent and sad
May 25, 2022
Ricky Gervais, Netflix and clickbait controversy
Audiences are increasingly wise to knee-jerk manipulation
May 20, 2022
Zelensky is the star of the Cannes Festival
Cannes is back, bébé
May 15, 2022
Evelyn Statsinger’s otherwordly art
The underappreciated artist is getting some well-deserved attention
May 9, 2022
Why are government unions never the bad guys?
One of the worst villains in American life gets ignored by Hollywood
May 1, 2022
Are critics useless?
Viola Davis calls them out for their smugness while sounding a bit vainglorious herself
April 29, 2022
Relive James Corden’s most valuable contributions to America
As the Brit announces his departure from The Late Late Show
April 28, 2022
Bob Dylan’s and T.S. Eliot’s search for truth
Eliot lingered in Dylan’s consciousness as he sought to answer the question “what is it?”
April 19, 2022
What is David Lynch up to now?
As rumors about ‘Wisteria’ swirl, the director is being typically mysterious
April 18, 2022
Blues for Pablo
Books and ArtsAn exhibition of early Picasso has landed at the Phillips Collection in Washington
