September 15 2025


Art September 8, 2025

Why Jane Austen is still the queen of romance

The writer remains supreme in part because women don’t merely want dazzling men, we want to be dazzling ourselves.

Julia Yost

Exhibitions September 8, 2025

Vermeer’s Love Letters is something of a riddle

The paintings become mysteries, enticing and deserving of attention precisely because there are so few

Suzanna Murawski

Exhibitions September 8, 2025

How Esther inspired the imagination of Rembrandt

The enchanting and historically haunting show consists of more than 120 objects

Diane Cole

Theater September 8, 2025

The problem with Heathers: The Musical

The musical flirts with nonconformity and then, scared, retreats into its own shadow

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

Film September 8, 2025

The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson at his most transparent

Everything is a dolly shot of dolled-up people in a doll’s house

Curtis Yarvin