Dark Artist
Frank Miller’s valuable new memoir explores the creative life of one of America’s most gifted writers and artists.
Ron Capshaw
· 9 min read
Art & Culture
A collection of 863 posts
The Passion of Bess McNeill
Lars von Trier’s harrowing but resplendent story of suffering and grace turns thirty this year.
Charlotte Allen
· 21 min read
Capturing the ‘Odyssey’
Homer’s epic provides a window on to a strange, paradoxical, fascinating, beautiful, and terrifying world that is at once familiar and unfamiliar.
Mallory Young
· 8 min read
Biting the Hand
Artists increasingly insist that their work and their politics are indivisible. They should not be surprised when the institutions that fund them agree.
Juliet Moses
· 15 min read
A Beautiful Odyssey, Made Dreary By Remorse
Christopher Nolan’s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
Charlotte Allen
· 14 min read
Men Without Meaning
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 10 min read
The Grift at the Gate
The Grift Industrial Complex targeted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and got buried.
Giancarlo Sopo
· 8 min read
The Oldest Tradition in Art
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Strong Opinions
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
Stephen Akey
· 10 min read
Why Soccer Is Boring
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Robert Lynch
· 10 min read
The Truth Does Not Belong to Eight Billion People
Total disclosure, as Spielberg imagines it, is a beautiful thing to watch. It is also a fantasy.
Yaniv Regev
· 6 min read
Dangerous Liaisons and the #MeToo Wars
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
Cathy Young
· 21 min read
The Art of Looking
A tribute to David Hockney (1937–2026).
Julia Friedman
· 10 min read
Colbert and Cancellation
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
Kevin Mahnken
· 6 min read
Lists, Damn Lists, and Critical Correctness
Love them or hate them, lists are now firmly established—along with cats and porn—among the apex predators of the modern internet.
Dave Thompson
· 12 min read