October 2021


Music September 14, 2021

The triumph of bedroom pop

From Joe Meek to Taylor Swift: a short history of lo-fi

Robert Barry

Exhibitions September 14, 2021

Flagging energy

Jasper Johns, an art-world darling for decades, is getting a massive museum retrospective

Andrew L. Shea

Book Review September 14, 2021

How Hitler’s great gamble nearly paid off

The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough reviewed

Nigel Jones

Film September 14, 2021

Time for Another Round

Another Round reviewed

Nicky Otis Smith

Exhibitions September 14, 2021

Titian meets Isabella Stewart Gardner

The masterpieces of Titian’s old age have come to Boston

Martin Gayford

Book Review September 14, 2021

W.G. Sebald’s borrowed truths and barefaced lies

Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald by Carole Angier reviewed

Lucasta Miller

Book Review September 14, 2021

Lucy Ellmann is angry about everything, especially men

Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann reviewed

Sarah Ditum

Book Review September 14, 2021

Oliver Cromwell: ruthless in battle — but nice to his men

The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton reviewed

Marcus Nevitt