A collection of 75 posts
The zine community was a haven for all types of free-thinking artists, misfits, and heretics—until online mobs turned it into just another bastion of social-justice groupthink.
The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn.
Nikkitha Bakshani’s debut novel ‘Ghost Chilli’ is an ideologically confused work that seems to endorse the racial essentialism it purports to satirise.
Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted.
Intensive con artistry may be a narcissistic strategy for the avoidance of self-knowledge.
Giles Martin has reinvigorated the Beatles’ masterpiece, a record brimming with ideas, confidence, and insouciant courage.
Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual.
A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president.
How an octogenarian artist defied curatorial bureaucracy.
Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse.
A personal tribute to the overlooked genius of writer W.C. Heinz.
Farewell to another of the Big Six novelists from the Golden Age of American horror fiction.
A review of Arthur C. Brooks’s new book, ‘From Strength to Strength.’
An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many.
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.