SoHo’s downtown drawings
Books and ArtsCultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
Culture
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The Princess is misanthropic TikTok schlock
With a toxic masculinity all its own
July 28, 2022
Ron Howard: nobody’s favorite Hollywood director
He’s a careful pair of hands but little else
July 27, 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing reduces a rich novel to a love triangle
Gone are the book’s themes of Christianity and the poverty of marsh life
July 24, 2022
Beastie Boys were masters of cultural appropriation
Yet liberal New Yorkers just named an intersection after them
July 15, 2022
The latest Jane Austen adaptation is dreadful
‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’
Americans should be proud of their Poet Laureates
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
July 13, 2022
The latest Thor isn’t ‘super gay’
It’s same old Marvel, dressing up the usual in brand new drag
July 10, 2022
The unsolved mystery of Marilyn Monroe
Who was she? Films like Blonde cast us into a hall of mirrors
July 7, 2022
The one-note wonder
Books and ArtsThe Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Books and ArtsPaul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Books and ArtsRemembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
Books and ArtsA Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
Books and ArtsThe movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Books and ArtsDaniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Friends creator falls victim to white guilt
Insane apologies in woke world
Bracing for the tension of Better Call Saul
The show is about to end with all the fervor we might have wished for
July 1, 2022
Ezra Miller needs help
A number of parents have taken out restraining orders against the actor
June 28, 2022
Kevin Spacey’s transatlantic fall from grace
The British legal system will decide his fate
June 24, 2022
In search of a credible Elvis movie
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic is fun but too cartoonish to capture the legend
June 14, 2022
The Jurassic series is ready for its asteroid
It’s become an exercise in high-budget pointlessness
June 12, 2022
The welcome return of The Kids in the Hall
Only the 90s could have given us something so bizarre and anarchic
June 5, 2022
Stranger Things and the perils of nostalgia
Its version of the Eighties is oddly benign
June 2, 2022
Hollywood has a school violence problem
So much for escapism
June 1, 2022
America has lost her Top Gun spirit
And no well-intentioned sequel can pretend otherwise
May 26, 2022
Deep water Winslow
Books and ArtsWinslow Homer has been put out to sea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diaries from Eighties New York
Books and ArtsDuncan Hannah chronicles growing up and getting down in Eighties New York
Is Hans Zimmer a genius or a charlatan?
Books and ArtsA Zimmer score is seldom less than a pleasure to listen to, as has been the case for decades
Throwing curveballs
Books and ArtsRace and sex in Paradise Square and Take Me Out
