Waugh in Hollywood
Seventy-five years ago, Evelyn Waugh headed to Hollywood to sell Brideshead Revisited
Books and Arts
Thursday
Fit to print
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen reviewed
Diversifying democracy
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk reviewed
Femmes fatales in fiction and life
American literature is intensely preoccupied with the beautiful female psychopath
A private life
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff, reviewed
Beautiful and damned
Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford reviewed
Dirty realists
The beauty of dirty realism is that it captures regular life in all its stupefying, and sometimes transcendent, malaise
Holbein at the Morgan
Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
Messenger service
First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed
Michael Jackson on Broadway
MJ: The Musical reviewed
Troubles in paradise
Belfast reviewed
Buster’s land stand
Buster Keaton is again of the moment
Power couple
Cover Story: Power Trip and Power Corrupts reviewed
Sunday
A gay fandango
Joie de Vivre by Paul Bailey reviewed
Fall and decline
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport reviewed
Our enemy’s enemy
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach reviewed
For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian reviewed
I’m a Latinx person of letters
The POC victim narrative is a systemic problem
Sibelius speaks
A new recording of a rare piece by Jean Sibelius is out
Precarious and thrilling
Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history