July 2022


Book Review July 5, 2022

Helen DeWitt’s brilliance and unsuccess

The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt reviewed

Maria Albano

Books July 5, 2022

Lost in translation

Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?

Francesca Peacock

Exhibitions July 5, 2022

The one-note wonder

The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse

Eric Gibson

Exhibitions July 5, 2022

Playing the long game

Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago

Xico Greenwald

Music July 5, 2022

A concert begun in darkness

Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp

Jacob Heilbrunn

Film July 5, 2022

How green is your Soylent?

A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022

Tom Meek

Film July 5, 2022

Why did no one see The Northman?

The movie may be the last of its kind

Will Hill

Theater July 5, 2022

Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play

Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours

Robert S. Erickson