It pays to be a bad college-football coach
A talent arms race is driving up the coaches’ price tags – even when those coaches are horrible
Culture
Tuesday
Friday
Don McCullin shows no signs of slowing down
In the veteran photojournalist’s later work, a sense of foreboding is never far away
The free market can’t stop AI actress Tilly Norwood
There’s no economic incentive not to use AI actors – but doing so is morally repulsive
Wednesday
Del Toro’s Frankenstein deserves the big screen
Still, it’s a relief that Netflix, for all its faults, is bankrolling work as individual and striking as this
Tuesday
Why was Steven Soderbergh’s Star Wars film rejected?
That his film might be seen as a risk says a lot about how tainted the brand has become
Thursday
Is OCD hip?
Olivia Levine’s one-woman show takes the mental illness as a subject
The Will Stancil Show is art
The AI-generated cartoon is better than anything Comedy Central or Adult Swim has produced in the last 20 years
Wednesday
Is Jeremy Strong our John Cazale?
The actor is the best part of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Tuesday
Unpacking Tucker Carlson’s 9/11 documentary
The documentary claims the Saudis were behind 9/11 – and the CIA then protected them
Adam McEwen’s small masterpieces of the uncanny
It’s a strange time, McEwen reflects, to be an artist
Taylor Swift’s new album balances glitter with grit
The Life of a Showgirl is conceptually mature and compelling
One Battle After Another may be the worst movie ever made
It is a grand, multifaceted masterpiece of badness
The Who’s farewell tour marks the end of an era
The band never lost sight of what first made them great, and what made rock ’n’ roll great
Friday
We need Sabrina Carpenter
She’s the nation’s court jester
Have the Virginia Giuffre revelations got Prince Andrew sweating?
Excerpts from her new memoir are a mixture of the newsworthy and the unremarkable
Sunday
Happy Birthday, Aleister Crowley
A ceremonial magician, poet, artist, novelist, prophet, journalist, mountaineer and spy
Wednesday
Will Dwayne Johnson always be The Rock?
He struggles to chart a new course in The Smashing Machine
Tuesday
How to fix the Met
‘It’s impossible to predict hits,’ said the man paid $1.4 million a year to, well, predict hits
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson is a must-see show
The Met’s show is tribute to a fine artist of boundless talent
The closest look yet at David Bowie’s mind and imagination
The much-missed musician is the beneficiary of a new, bespoke space inside the Victoria & Albert Museum’s East Storehouse outpost
New York Fashion Week’s shimmer feels noticeably dimmed
The week has evolved into a content-driven machine
Spinal Tap II is an amusing, honorable successor to the original film
Above all, Reiner proves his vim and vigor by the very quality of the film
Monday
What can we expect from the Simpsons sequel?
It’s gotta be really, really good if it wants to stay even slightly relevant
Friday
‘Media Literacy’ and the decline of Woke
The left has entirely abandoned even the pretense of postmodern skepticism
Thursday
‘From the folks that brought you 9/11’
American comedy is embroiled in a war of words over the Riyadh Comedy Festival
Monday
Why is Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl?
Globalization is coming for America’s most popular sport
Is Slow Horses slowing down?
It might be time to take the show out to pasture
Tuesday
Trump is right to take on the Smithsonian
The curators’ political peacocking has long carried no risk
Ben Shahn’s work remains as timely as ever
The artist’s unflinching vision of a world gone awry is as powerfully direct as his late-in-life compositions of compassion and hope