Birth of a nation
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed
Books & Arts
Cats: The Snuff Movie
Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that
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’?
Uniform beats
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed
‘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…
Around the world in 49 days
The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World by Samuel Zipp reviewed
Mass appeal: Stanford in Stamford
An American debut, only a century late
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