SoHo’s downtown drawings
Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
Books & Arts
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
Ukraine in black and white
Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Berlin as the unreal city
A new book makes you ask, somewhat apprehensively, what will happen there next
Mary Gaitskill and the body electric
Why do we find the dark side of sexuality so terrifying?
Henry Kissinger’s likely last book is on leadership
And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery
He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie