Books & Arts
Review | ‘WandaVision’ on Disney Plus gives Marvel Studios its first true power couple
That’s how long it takes for the symphonic Marvel Studios intro to reel you in. It’s like a long-lost friend...
The language of incitement
JOHNSON’S FIRST column after the election of Donald Trump in 2016 looked at “speech acts”, or what J.L. Austin, a...
New tools are making it easier to authenticate paintings
FOR ART historians trying to tell the fake from the real, the Russian avant-garde presents unique challenges. As Soviet rule...
“Asylum Road” is a twisty tale of trauma
Asylum Road. By Olivia Sudjic. Bloomsbury; 272 pages; £14.99.WHEN OLIVIA SUDJIC’S debut novel, “Sympathy”, a study of a young woman’s...
A revealing account of the Cultural Revolution
The World Turned Upside Down. By Yang Jisheng. Translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 768 pages;...
The making of a murder
Anatomy of a Killing. By Ian Cobain. Granta; 304 pages; £18.99.HARRY MURRAY and Millar McAllister had much in common. They...
The Arctic misadventures of William Barents
Icebound. By Andrea Pitzer. Scribner; 320 pages; $29. Simon & Schuster; £20.WHEN WILLIAM BARENTS, a Dutch navigator, sailed to the...
New Yorker cover captures a nation’s mourning after Capitol riot
After Trump urged his supporters Wednesday to march on the Capitol, members of far-right groups rioted inside the building during...
How cartoonists are capturing the Capitol riot — and the ways Trump provoked it
On deadline, Luckovich’s immediate aim was to adapt the best symbology for editorial impact.“Although Americans are familiar with the Capitol,...
How cartoons are spoofing Trump’s call with Raffensperger over Georgia votes
In the summer of 1974, several GOP leaders in Congress visited Richard Nixon to tell the Watergate-embattled president that he...
Review | ‘Cloudpunk’: Exploited future workers of the world unite
Unfolding over the course of one night, “Cloudpunk” follows Rania as she pilots her HOVA — a four-seater air vehicle...
The secret virtues of small talk
Jan 2nd 2021FORD PREFECT, an alien passing for a human in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, wonders about earthlings’...
Ethio-jazz is a product of migration and heroic ingenuity
Jan 2nd 2021TO WESTERN EARS, the music seems both foreign and familiar. Its mood stretches from sultry and haunting to...
How will covid-19 change the world?
Jan 2nd 2021Apollo’s Arrow. By Nicholas Christakis.Little, Brown Spark; 368 pages; $29 and £20.Is It Tomorrow Yet? By Ivan Krastev.Penguin;...
‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said goodbye 25 years ago. Here’s why Bill Watterson’s masterwork enchants us still.
Yet the beloved duo have never really left us.“Calvin and Hobbes,” one of the greatest strips ever to grace newspapers,...
Bill Watterson and other artists reflect on 1995, the year that comics changed forever
“This was three Hall of Famers walking away in their prime,” says Andrew Farago, curator of the Cartoon Art Museum...
Perspective | 7 movies that do the same things ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ does, but better
Warner Bros. and DC Films just gave the green light to a third “Wonder Woman” after positive early box-office and...
Analysis | Wonder Woman survives a pandemic and polarizing reactions to remain one of the top superhero franchises
Warner Bros. studio chief Toby Emmerich announced on Sunday that the studio and DC Entertainment are moving forward with a...
For Pedro Pascal, this is the way to play a villain when you’re also the coolest hero in the galaxy
Pascal was pitched the lead role in “The Mandalorian” right after he began working on “Wonder Woman 1984” in...
How Patty Jenkins turned ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ into a personal Washington story
Writing and guiding the sequel meant “really getting to do whatever I wanted,” Jenkins says this month by Zoom...
