A comedian explains how to quit social media
James Acaster has not stopped exploring where he might want to go
Books and Arts
Sunday
Dawn party
The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism
A chronicler of enormities
Leonard Baskin was not to everyone’s taste, and the feeling was mutual
The buildings Richard Nickel championed
None were so dear to him as architect Louis Sullivan’s
The heart of The Rings of Power
Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world
Is this Tom Stoppard’s last act?
If Leopoldstadt does not convince the theatergoing public, then what will?
At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style
The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day
Tuesday
Free expression after the Rushdie attack
It was an assault on literary free speech itself
Bob Dylan, the song and dance man
A new biography captures his entire world
Exploring the decline of Britain’s birds
Patrick Galbraith’s latest goes searching for kittiwakes and grouses
Has the American novel abandoned God?
Our literary life today speaks of a crisis of faith
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine
Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war
John Singer Sargent comes to Spain
The artist created his own synthetic Spanish vision
Kimono Style is more than just East-meets-West fashion
It is also a glimpse into a mystifying period of Japanese history
Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser
An action movie can be good or woke, but not both
Bodies Bodies Bodies cancels its characters to death
It’s a successful satire of cancel culture that never hectors or patronizes
A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home
In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure
Weighing in on the unauthorized Hamilton
It was probably inevitable that the culture wars would come for the show
The deeply human Walking Dead
The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery
