Understanding museum theft with best-selling author Kirk Wallace Johnson
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed
Books & Arts
John Waters, the pope of cliché
Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
George Harrison at eighty
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Two excellent books that offer new insight into The Iliad
A new translation and critical study explore the legendary poem’s numinous spell
The gap between technotopia and dystopia are never far apart
Mustafa Suleyman’s new book is a rousing call-to-arms for humanity
How the CIA interfered in the Congo
Stuart Reid relates the whole convoluted tale lucidly, conveying the steadily growing atmosphere of confusion and fear
Adam Sisman’s new John le Carré biography entertains and disappoints
While I expected the le Carré who emerges from it to be a womanizer, a fantasist and a self-server, I didn’t anticipate that he would be such a terrible bore
America’s professor: the afterlife of C.S. Lewis
He is the myth-maker, the scholar, the convert, the defender of the faith, the rebel, the writer and the teacher