Cameron Crowe’s cringe magic
The Uncool wants to be as honest as that teenager
Books and Arts
Tuesday
The stubborn resilience of Mexico
There was a diplomatic, if paradoxical, formula for evading unpalatable edicts: obedezco pero no cumplo (‘I obey, but I won’t do it’)
Is there such a thing as right-wing art?
A durable national identity cannot be asserted into being
Reconciling dreams with reality
Truth to tell, surrealism lent itself to individuals who were inherently off-the-beam
The contingent talent of Emily Sargent
Creativity in proximity to genius without its obligations
Monet’s Venetian moment
Monet also captured another element of the open air: smog
Portrait of a frontier life
Train Dreams, often hailed as a ‘miniature masterpiece,’ is not a story of defeat
Tuesday
Inside Jim Harrison’s life of excess
Todd Goddard’s new biography reveals a man who loved alcohol and mystery
How Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress
She’s often forgotten among the suffragettes, but her story is just as important
Did Robert McNamara know Vietnam was unwinnable?
A new biography asks the same question – and looks into a potential affair with Jackie
Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the 1929 crash
His new tome offers both detail and verve
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