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
Culture
The good, the bad and the ugly in books, exhibitions, cinema, TV, dance, music, podcasts and theatre.
Wednesday
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
How Alex Jones won
A mixture of Martin Luther King Jr. and L. Ron Hubbard, he is our greatest living orator
Why the Army needs the cavalry
Yes, the horses were a throwback to a bygone era, but isn’t the Army proud of its history?
‘Gender-affirming care’ is never justified
The scale of the problem is no longer a matter of opinion; it’s a number
New York City belongs to the rats
The rodents grace T-shirts, mugs and cups
Gossip is good for you… so I’m told
Indeed, it has some evolutionary advantages
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
The bully doctrine
The doctrine boils down to this: the more threatening a person is, the less threatening he is
A farewell to summer
Politicians I can do without, but I miss the whales
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
