April 2024

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Where is the clarity in modern center-right foreign policy?

Ben Domenech

Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea suggest a response to the new isolationism that is essential for understanding contemporary foreign policy debates on the right
Iraq

Clement Knox

An impressive examination of the conjoined fates of Iraq and the United States
rollins

Philip Clark

An unvarnished insight into the mind of Sonny Rollins
Holiday

Alison Kerr

A look into Billie Holiday’s final year
butler

Book Review March 18, 2024

Who’s afraid of Judith Butler?

The gender theorist’s first mainstream publication is unconvincing

Mitchell Jackson

gangster

Film March 18, 2024

The intriguing revival of the British gangster picture

It is unlikely that either Sexy Beast or The Gentlemen will have their legacies seriously challenged by the television series based on them

Alexander Larman

Inherent Vice

Film March 18, 2024

Reconsidering Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice

If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature

Amelia Butler-Gallie

Cobain

Music March 18, 2024

Revisiting Kurt Cobain, three decades after his death

Why are we still so fascinated with the grunge icon?

Christopher Sandford

Merrily

Theater March 18, 2024

Finally, a version of Merrily We Roll Along that works

Director Maria Friedman has harnessed revelatory performances from her three leads to create a theatrical masterpiece

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

notre-dame

Architecture March 18, 2024

Notre-Dame rising

The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?

William Newton