This month in culture: February 2025
What to watch this February
Books & Arts
Doomers looks at what AI means for the future
Someone — I forget who — suggested the idea of my play as a joke, and I thought it was a good one
Why we dramatize history — and why we should stop
The melding of truth and fiction is both culturally limiting and the kind of dangerous terrain which breeds conspiracy theories and fake news
The luck of Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 picture was ridiculed on release. Fifty years later, it is considered a masterpiece
Why Goethe matters
It is difficult to think of any area of modern life which is not anticipated in Faust
Cher should stick to what she knows best
Her memoir suggests that the icon doesn’t know what makes her compelling
Wrestling with Jordan Peterson
The pop psychologist’s new book is not likely to light the fire of faith in any young fan
Will science lead us back to God?
In his new book, Spencer A. Klavan takes his reader through a brief but brilliantly executed history of scientific discovery
Bill Clinton’s latest memoir sees him at his chirpiest — and most combative
As much as anything else, Citizen is a book of omissions
