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’
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Friday
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
Friday
Please, please let COVID-19 kill the culture wars
Is it so much to ask?
Wednesday
Netflix sued for defamation over Central Park Five miniseries
Did the filmmakers’ hunger for retribution outweigh their commitment to tell the truth?
Tuesday
The refreshing darkness of Netflix’s Locke & Key
The world before woke
Friday
The human clay
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
Wednesday
I hope Artie Lange is OK
In appreciation of the legendary comedian
Mass appeal: Stanford in Stamford
An American debut, only a century late
Monday
The real McCoy
In memory of McCoy Tyner
Tuesday
‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
Uniform beats
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed
Monday
Bernie $anders is a public enemy
I’m voting for Flavor Flav
An old master who still feels new
El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?
Wednesday
Urbino legend
The chance of a lifetime for lovers of Raphael
Monday
Washington returns history to the History Channel
The foundingest father of them all
Saturday
Cyrus the Great
A night at Blues Alley with the mighty Chestnut
Friday
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
