Ukraine in black and white
Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Books and Arts
Monday
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
SoHo’s downtown drawings
Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
Thursday
The rise of gay Washington
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick reviewed
The circus that was 80s literary Britain
A new book remembers all the excitement and absurdity
How not to live a life
Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill reviewed
NIMBYs to the left of me, YIMBYs to the left
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran reviewed
Helen DeWitt’s brilliance and unsuccess
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt reviewed
Lost in translation
Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?
The one-note wonder
The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
The movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Thursday
A royal affair
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown reviewed
Falling in line with Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel Babbitt is both a prophecy and a warning for America in the next century
Faces off
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris reviewed
Forever young
Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff reviewed
