Sotheby’s latest gamble
The storied auction house is making a major change to its fee structure. What will it mean for the art world’s future?
Books & Arts
An Enemy of the People is hit-or-miss
The language itself — and the on-the-nose themes that Amy Herzog has unsubtly emphasized — feel like they could be sourced directly from Twitter/X
A cultural summer in the city
New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
Christopher Nolan, creator of worlds
The filmmaker has Hollywood at his feet
A revelatory account of the post-war exploits of the House of Windsor
Alexander Larman’s Power and Glory is a tale of survival
Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously published novel is unconvincing
Until August has a curiously half-baked feel, as if it’s a souvenir of a great man’s legacy rather than a work in itself
The talented Evan S. Connell
He might be the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of
The ups and downs of the long road toward workplace parity
Josie Cox has persuasively documented the steady but halting progress that women have made in the workplace
The wild times on the late, great John Belushi’s most famous film
Daniel de Visé’s entertaining — if that is the right word — canter through Belushi and Aykroyd’s lives and times covers a fair number of bases
