Crimes of the Future is David Cronenberg at his best
Which scenes will cause you to walk out or flee in disgust? Caveat emptor
Books & Arts
Closing the curtain on Norm Macdonald’s comedy
He was willing to pulverize all we hold dear in modern America
Not your average Jo
Joanna Hiffernan is now at the center of The Woman in White, an exhibition at the NGA
Chroma chameleon
The Met brings out its bread and butter: stunning galleries devoted to Greek and Roman art
Country music finds its independent streak
New singers are bucking bro-country and reconnecting with their roots
The time trap of Irma Vep
The HBO Max miniseries shows a rare interest in the present moment
Frank Buckley’s right direction
Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?
The faulty towers of higher education
The college system is broken — can it be fixed?
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
Paul Theroux’s family values
He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at 100
A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
No stone unturned
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
