This month in culture: July 2024
What should be on your radar this July
Books & Arts
The evergreen, ageless Rolling Stones
How did the band achieve this curious headlock on our affections?
CreatiVets and the art of war
CreatiVets helps disabled veterans through the arts
Bianca Bosker’s snapshot of the art scene
What drives people’s interest in art is profoundly linked to what makes us human
Suburbia’s irredeemable reputation in the American canon
As it stands, its place as a literary locus in the American canon is a fraught one
Kevin Barry’s latest novel is bursting with energy, brutality and poetry
The Heart in Winter is a rambunctious galumph of a story
Is the hype for The Bee Sting justified?
Over the course of 600-odd pages, Paul Murray marshals elements of tragedy, black comedy and drama with consummate skill
Stephen King’s You Like it Darker shows a master at his peak
You Like It Darker inevitably harks back to Carrie, King’s debut novel, published fifty years ago this spring
John Freeman’s Hit and Run is gorgeously crafted
This is a work about significant moments, glittering with reflections and refractions
Anne Applebaum’s solutions to the ‘threat’ of autocracy
Autocracy, Inc. is woefully inadequate to the times in which it appears