Books & Arts
Giving up on politics is often tempting. It is also risky
Oct 24th 2020Live Not By Lies. By Rod Dreher. Sentinel; 256 pages; $27.WORLDLY SUCCESS has not made Rod Dreher...
Review | ‘Promesa’: Video game? Interactive art? Why not both?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPI6bzrLdCYPlaying through “Promesa” prompted me to recall a memorable passage in Tarkovsky’s “Sculpting in Time,” the book in which...
Review | ‘Amnesia: Rebirth’: A dark fantasy game that allows players to get their hands dirty
I first heard of the Milgram experiment back in high school and, for the longest time, thought that if...
How a Pepe the Frog movie speaks powerfully to this moment in divisive American politics
On one level, the 90-minute documentary is about California cartoonist Matt Furie and his globally known creation, Pepe the...
William Boyd’s new novel is set amid the upheavals of 1968
Oct 17th 2020Trio. By William Boyd.Viking; 320 pages; £18.99. Published in America by Knopf in January 2021; $27.95.OVER A...
Does naming a thing help you understand it?
Oct 17th 2020“OAK” AND “fruit forward” are for wine amateurs. “Cedar” and “barnyard” are for real connoisseurs, and only...
Outsiders pillaged—and helped save—Egypt’s glories
Oct 17th 2020A World Beneath the Sands. By Toby Wilkinson.W.W. Norton; 528 pages; $30. Picador; £25.AT THE BEGINNING of...
A masterful biography of JFK is a reminder of imperilled ideals
Oct 17th 2020JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956. By Fredrik Logevall. Random House; 816 pages; $40....
Sonequa Martin-Green stars in a future she hopes one day can be a reality
This new season was Martin-Green’s most challenging because she was pregnant with her second child. She described the pregnancy...
How cartoonists are rendering their judgment on Amy Coney Barrett
Bennett is drawing through the lens that the Barrett confirmation and the court’s resulting 6-to-3 conservative majority is an...
The persecution of a feminist Russian artist
YULIA TSVETKOVA, an artist and activist in the far east of Russia, wanted to dispel the taboos that surround...
How to produce an opera in lockdown
Oct 10th 2020IN THE VOID left by restrictions on theatres, opera has pursued a shadow life elsewhere. The English...
Theaster Gates turns discarded objects into art
Oct 10th 2020IN 2012 THEASTER GATES shipped a cargo of construction materials from a dilapidated house on the South...
For he will consider Jeoffry, the poet’s cat
Oct 10th 2020Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat. By Oliver Soden. History Press; 208 pages; £16.99.THE HERO of our story was...
Two books examine the global role of corruption
Oct 10th 2020Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World. By Tom Burgis. Harper; 464 pages; $28.99. William Collins;...
How cartoonists drew the Harris-Pence debate on the fly
Follow live updates on the election here. Biden leads Trump by 11 percentage points nationally, 53 percent to 42...
The intellectual flare of the so-called dark ages
Oct 8th 2020The Light Ages. By Seb Falk. W.W. Norton; 320 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £20.IN THE 11TH century,...
Review | ‘I Am Dead’ celebrates life through everyday objects
At the start of the game we are introduced to Morris Lupton, a mild-mannered fellow — bespectacled, bearded and...
How political cartoonists took on the tricky task of commenting on Trump’s covid-19 case
With Trump being transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday evening, Bennett knew he needed a...
An indictment of the CIA, through the lives of four spies
Oct 3rd 2020The Quiet Americans. By Scott Anderson.Doubleday; 576 pages; $30. To be published in Britain by Picador in...
