November 2022


Book Review October 31, 2022

Living one’s best life

It helps to have a soft spot for life-wisdom books

Anna Gát

Book Review October 31, 2022

A comedian explains how to quit social media

James Acaster has not stopped exploring where he might want to go

J. Grant Addison

Exhibitions October 31, 2022

Dawn party

The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism

Mario Naves

Exhibitions October 31, 2022

A chronicler of enormities

Leonard Baskin was not to everyone’s taste, and the feeling was mutual

Franklin Einspruch

Architecture October 31, 2022

The buildings Richard Nickel championed

None were so dear to him as architect Louis Sullivan’s

William Newton

Television October 31, 2022

The heart of The Rings of Power

Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world

Hannah Long

Theater October 31, 2022

Is this Tom Stoppard’s last act?

If Leopoldstadt does not convince the theatergoing public, then what will?

Robert S. Erickson

Film October 31, 2022

At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style

The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day

Peter Tonguette