The free market can’t stop AI actress Tilly Norwood
There’s no economic incentive not to use AI actors – but doing so is morally repulsive
Books & Arts
Don’t take Virginia Giuffre’s memoir at face value
Nobody’s Girl feels authentic, but its claims still require vetting
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket is transcendent and exhausting
The octogenarian author can still conjure magical prose
Woody Allen’s first novel takes on cancel culture
It’s unlikely to change your preconceived notion of the man
Sam Shepard’s life was as dramatic as his theater
Fear was the renaissance man’s guiding principle
Uncovering Brian Wilson’s real genius
The long-unfinished Smile reveals the musician’s talent and madness
Sixties Surreal at the Whitney is a bad trip
The show feels like an undergraduate thesis
Why is the Met making medieval art perverse?
Spectrum of Desire is somewhere between blasphemous and libelous
Drowning in the neon swamp of Tron: Ares
Your eyes and your brain cells will hate you for watching this
Are black-metal bands going Christian?
The anarchic music has long been a breeding ground for Christianity