Beach for America
Spring Breakers revisited
Books & Arts
Around and around the world
Masterpiece has brought Around the World in 80 Days to the small screen
Midcult madness
The Music Man and Plaza Suite reviewed
Charles Mingus at 100
He isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth confronting his life’s work
Jewel aid
Cartier’s sleek modernity finds its roots in Islamic art history
Blues for Pablo
An exhibition of early Picasso has landed at the Phillips Collection in Washington
Standing with J.K. Rowling
A certain sector of the Harry Potter fandom has decided that the author is the devil incarnate
You had to be there
Everybody Thought We Were Crazy by Mark Rozzo reviewed
Paradais City
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor reviewed
Faeries and queens
Flint and Mirror by John Crowley reviewed
The imperfect spy
A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen, America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy by Lis Wiehl reviewed
Et in Arcadia ego
Interwar Oxford was less a world of dreaming spires and more one of constipated poets