‘Father Stu’ and the merits of suffering
We’ve forgotten how to suffer well
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Saturday
Friday
Ocean Vuong’s immature poetry
His latest collection shows the limits of confessional poems
Thursday
Hollywood won’t say gay in China
Free speech exists in the entertainment industry — but only within CCP limits
Thursday
Time to slay J.K. Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts’
Let’s hope the latest film in the series is the last
Wednesday
‘Slow Horses’ is thriller television at its best
It’s not funny, but it’s terrific
Monday
Don’t cancel John Donne’s poetry
He’s being attacked as a colonialist but his work was far more complex and erotic than that
Is Andy Warhol really an artist?
The Supreme Court will grapple with that question in an upcoming copyright case
Friday
The bitter irony of Bruce Willis bowing out
Wealth and success don’t make one immune to aging
Tuesday
Wallace Stevens and the magic of stuff
The poet loved collecting bric-a-brac from around the world for a reason
Monday
Cancel culture gets its comeuppance
Not just politicians but artists are fighting back against its unreasonable demands
Five other award show moments that needed a slap
Is Will Smith available for hire?
Will Smith’s slap saved a poor Oscars
It will define this year’s Academy Awards forever
Thursday
Holbein at the Morgan
Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
Messenger service
First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
Michael Jackson on Broadway
MJ: The Musical reviewed
Troubles in paradise
Belfast reviewed
Buster’s land stand
Buster Keaton is again of the moment
Wednesday
Volodymyr Zelensky’s sitcom is now as sad as it is funny
Future generations will view it as a historical artifact
Friday
President Stacey Abrams gives Star Trek its far-left final frontier
A thirty-second-century rallying cry for the twenty-first-century Democratic Party
Thursday
Don’t cancel Russian culture
There’s all the difference in the world between Putin and Tchaikovsky
