The deeply human Walking Dead
The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery
Books and Arts
Tuesday
Saturday
No stone unturned
Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book
Tuesday
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at 100
A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
Paul Theroux’s family values
He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships
A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia
Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum
The faulty towers of higher education
The college system is broken — can it be fixed?
Frank Buckley’s right direction
Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?
The time trap of Irma Vep
The HBO Max miniseries shows a rare interest in the present moment
Country music finds its independent streak
New singers are bucking bro-country and reconnecting with their roots
Chroma chameleon
The Met brings out its bread and butter: stunning galleries devoted to Greek and Roman art
Not your average Jo
Joanna Hiffernan is now at the center of The Woman in White, an exhibition at the NGA
Closing the curtain on Norm Macdonald’s comedy
He was willing to pulverize all we hold dear in modern America
Crimes of the Future is David Cronenberg at his best
Which scenes will cause you to walk out or flee in disgust? Caveat emptor
Monday
Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery
He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie
Henry Kissinger’s likely last book is on leadership
And his biographies of great lives sparkle nicely
Mary Gaitskill and the body electric
Why do we find the dark side of sexuality so terrifying?
Berlin as the unreal city
A new book makes you ask, somewhat apprehensively, what will happen there next
Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet