‘Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence, they say. Sure enough, there is plenty of the latter at work in national politics. The Democratic side of the presidential race has become a muddle, with too many candidates and no clear message.’
Art March 1, 2020
‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’
Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…
Books March 1, 2020
Uniform beats
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed
Art March 1, 2020
An old master who still feels new
El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?
Art March 1, 2020
Cats: The Snuff Movie
Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that
Books March 1, 2020
Birth of a nation
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed
Books March 1, 2020
I won’t read American Dirt — but not because the author has the wrong skin color
You can’t own stories. You can’t patent topics and classes of character