A quiet delight
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón and My Grief, The Sun by Sanna Wani reviewed
Books and Arts
Thursday
Carry on regardless
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog reviewed
A grand slam
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer reviewed
Deep water Winslow
Winslow Homer has been put out to sea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diaries from Eighties New York
Duncan Hannah chronicles growing up and getting down in Eighties New York
Is Hans Zimmer a genius or a charlatan?
A Zimmer score is seldom less than a pleasure to listen to, as has been the case for decades
Throwing curveballs
Race and sex in Paradise Square and Take Me Out
The final word on the millennial generation
The Worst Person in the World’s ticking clock makes it both urgent and sad
Monday
Et in Arcadia ego
Interwar Oxford was less a world of dreaming spires and more one of constipated poets
The imperfect spy
A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen, America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy by Lis Wiehl reviewed
Faeries and queens
Flint and Mirror by John Crowley reviewed
Paradais City
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor reviewed
You had to be there
Everybody Thought We Were Crazy by Mark Rozzo reviewed
Standing with J.K. Rowling
A certain sector of the Harry Potter fandom has decided that the author is the devil incarnate
Blues for Pablo
An exhibition of early Picasso has landed at the Phillips Collection in Washington
Jewel aid
Cartier’s sleek modernity finds its roots in Islamic art history
Charles Mingus at 100
He isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth confronting his life’s work
Midcult madness
The Music Man and Plaza Suite reviewed
Around and around the world
Masterpiece has brought Around the World in 80 Days to the small screen
Beach for America
Spring Breakers revisited