February 2023


Book Review February 2, 2023

Bret Easton Ellis’s comeback is a bloody masterpiece

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed

York Underwood

Book Review February 2, 2023

Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions

How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?

Jack Sinclair

Book Review February 2, 2023

The struggle of the female musician

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed

Anne Sebba

Theater February 2, 2023

The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater

It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane

Robert S. Erickson

Film February 2, 2023

The death of the movie star

Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king

Sam Wasson

Music February 2, 2023

Playing God with Paramore

What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?

Mitchell Jackson

Exhibitions February 2, 2023

In Claude Monet’s postmodern garden

I began to find the uncanny experience transporting

James Panero

Art February 2, 2023

The shock and awe-inspiring art of Iraq

After decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene

Adrian Brune