The shock and awe-inspiring art of Iraq
After decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene
Books & Arts
In Claude Monet’s postmodern garden
I began to find the uncanny experience transporting
Playing God with Paramore
What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?
The death of the movie star
Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater
It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane
The struggle of the female musician
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed
Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions
How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?
Bret Easton Ellis’s comeback is a bloody masterpiece
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed
Behind closed doors
The Cloisters by Katy Hays reviewed
From Russia with love
Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy reviewed
The art of the royal memoir
Britain’s royal family sells books like nobody’s business
Hoover damned
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage reviewed