Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the 1929 crash
His new tome offers both detail and verve
Books and Arts
Tuesday
Another collection of Harper Lee’s writings arises
These pieces show the author trying her darndest to find her voice
South America is flush with Nazi-looted art
Sleuths rediscovered a stolen painting, galvanizing efforts to uncover even more
Rauschenberg is a bore
His new exhibition at the Guggenheim is a sour birthday party
Man Ray is alluring in the way a psychopath is
The Met’s exhibition shows that the artist tried to destroy everything human about himself
Is Martin Scorsese America’s greatest living director?
Apple’s new paean to the man certainly suggests as much
A new Phantom comes to Broadway
Masquerade honors and innovates the legacy of Phantom of the Opera
Wednesday
Don’t take Virginia Giuffre’s memoir at face value
Nobody’s Girl feels authentic, but its claims still require vetting
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket is transcendent and exhausting
The octogenarian author can still conjure magical prose
Woody Allen’s first novel takes on cancel culture
It’s unlikely to change your preconceived notion of the man
Sam Shepard’s life was as dramatic as his theater
Fear was the renaissance man’s guiding principle
Uncovering Brian Wilson’s real genius
The long-unfinished Smile reveals the musician’s talent and madness
Sixties Surreal at the Whitney is a bad trip
The show feels like an undergraduate thesis
Why is the Met making medieval art perverse?
Spectrum of Desire is somewhere between blasphemous and libelous
Drowning in the neon swamp of Tron: Ares
Your eyes and your brain cells will hate you for watching this
Friday
The free market can’t stop AI actress Tilly Norwood
There’s no economic incentive not to use AI actors – but doing so is morally repulsive
Tuesday
Kamala Harris is living in dreamland
The general impression in 107 Days is one of listlessness, torpor, a failure to really grasp the stakes of what’s happening
Addie E. Citchen’s debut novel is unsettling and ambitious
Dominion offers no answers, only the clear recognition of how power corrodes those bound to it
A compelling account of actor Robert Shaw’s life
Christopher Shaw Myers outlines his uncle’s story with lesser-known information and anecdotes
Inside the Cartel is not your average true-crime memoir
Martin Suarez’s storytelling is precise, even surgical. But it’s the content that burrows under the skin
