Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Friday
Don’t insult Joker by comparing him to Trump
What Todd Phillips’s film tells us about protest movements
Tuesday
Top Boy wins the turf war
Top Boy reviewed
Tuesday
Leonardo in Paris
A stunning journey into the ‘science of painting’
Is this the only Catherine the Great review to mention the age gap?
Helen Mirren is 74 years old while the character she plays — at least at the start of the mini-series — is 33 years old
Sunday
Secrets of the maestro
The first major American exhibition of Andrea del Verrocchio confirms that he was a Renaissance innovator, and more than Leonardo’s teacher
Saturday
Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Raising the goblet of rock
Pod almighty
Building the great podcast of Alexandria
Friday
CNN’s LGBT Town Hall collapses into trans madness
In its quest for every gender on the spectrum, the network couldn’t even find a single top to stuff into the audience
A great time in the Faddisphere
Faddis took a break, sat down on a chair onstage near me, then started blowing along with the band again
Tuesday
Who killed the American arts?
The decline from Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin to A$AP Rocky and Lizzo is a slide from civilization to barbarism
The NBA tosses an alley-oop for China’s censors
Meanwhile, South Park offers a full-court press of freedom of expression
Thursday
Is Peaky Blinders past its peak?
If the cap fits…
Monday
Blondie ambition
Face It by Debbie Harry reviewed
Sunday
The semiotics of Jackass
For all the chaos on Jackass, there were no obvious consequences
Saturday
Louise Linton: why I don’t like being ‘the wife of…’
I married a politician. But my identity is not defined by my husband
Friday
Not in front of the servants
Long live Downton Abbey
Monday
Being mistaken for James Corden motivated my weight loss
This is my story
Sunday
The Oscar goes to Felicity Huffman
The Desperate Housewife is down with a case of the Varsity Blues
Friday
In defense of record players
LPs are not only an important source of pleasure but also edification
