A new translation and critical study explore the legendary poem’s numinous spell
Music October 17, 2023
The great Marty Stuart, possessor of one of popular music’s legendary guitars
He stands five-foot-seven in his stocking feet, but with Clarence White’s Telecaster slung around his neck, he looks ten feet tall
Music October 17, 2023
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
Music October 17, 2023
George Harrison at eighty
Of the four Beatles, Harrison was the most attuned to, and wary of, the mania side of Beatlemania
Film October 17, 2023
John Waters, the pope of cliché
Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal
Exhibitions October 17, 2023
Understanding museum theft with best-selling author Kirk Wallace Johnson
There is, inevitably, a feeling of embarrassment and shame that emanates from institutions after they have been robbed