Count my blessings
Meeting the inimitable Basie
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Wednesday
We need black conservatism
We are living through an update of radical chic. Elite white liberals are apologizing for and even applauding the worst riots in a generation, if not two. They are now joined by people who used to pretend at least that they were Republicans — former President George W. Bush and former nominee Mitt Romney have … Read more
Sunday
Christo’s art of self-promotion
The late artist and his wife spent years assiduously burnishing his image
Monday
The shape of things
On shape-note singing and my friend Stephen
Tuesday
The Real White House Housewives
A first look at The Right View, the Trump campaign’s new talk show
What makes Joe Rogan so successful?
No single factor explains it
Thursday
The Clarence Thomas documentary is a must-see
If you are already an admirer of Justice Thomas, you are going to enjoy spending time with him
Friday
The similarity between Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci
The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave
Wednesday
Salvant grace
Cécile McLorin Salvant’s shock of the new
Wednesday
What can we learn about coronavirus from classic cinema?
My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender
Thursday
Joe Exotic is an ordinary American
He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune
Sunday
The bloody decade: think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s
In 1974 alone, there were 2,044 bombings in America, with 24 people killed
Saturday
Joe Exotic might be the best gay role model I’ve seen on television
His existence throws a wrench in the narrative that the other America is a hateful land where Christians hunt homos for sport
Monday
Why we love to hate celebrities
‘One World: Together at Home’ is a weirdly complacent name
Wednesday
Meghan Markle’s white privilege
Elephant demands that we pity the weakness of the most powerful
Friday
How to write the Great Coronavirus Screenplay
‘JESSICA is sitting on her Peloton bike. It’s April 2020. Rain slides down the windowpane. She hasn’t left her apartment — not even to go to Whole Foods — for almost a month’
The casual gamer’s guide to surviving quarantine
Time to dust off the ol’ controller
Sunday
Conscious coupling
Sex therapy with Anna Karenina
Tenor badness
Benny Golson, last legend of bebop
Saturday
Finger pickin’ good
Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has reinvented his instrument and retraced its roots
