November 2023


Book Review October 17, 2023

Two excellent books that offer new insight into The Iliad

A new translation and critical study explore the legendary poem’s numinous spell

Philip Womack

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

Aaron Gwyn

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

Alexander Larman

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

Robert Dean Lurie

Film October 17, 2023

John Waters, the pope of cliché

Cinema’s pet subversive deserves a proper reappraisal

Mitchell Jackson

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

William Newton