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Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg reviewed

How the Seventies are taking us back to their future

His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair

When real members of the DGSE saw the first season, they gave it a standing ovation

Singer, patriot and pioneer of social distancing, Morrissey is once again a star

After the waiting, the barbarians arrive

The family that plays together…

The sensible center drives the woke to the edge of reason

How we can reckon with the past without destroying it

A brutal backstory for HBO’s decadent detective

Gibson achieves peace of mind by dismembering a redcoat with a hatchet

Funny is money

Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Courage and Change by Tori Amos reviewed

The Nineties began in hope but ended in disaster

Meeting the inimitable Basie

On shape-note singing and my friend Stephen

The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s shock of the new

My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender

He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune

In 1974 alone, there were 2,044 bombings in America, with 24 people killed

Sex therapy with Anna Karenina

Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has reinvented his instrument and retraced its roots

The world before woke

As he collects more than three decades of thinking and writing about sculpture into a new book, Eric Gibson introduces a few of his favorite things

An American debut, only a century late

Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…