spectator april 2022

FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2022

Books

Waugh in Hollywood

Seventy-five years ago, Evelyn Waugh headed to Hollywood to sell Brideshead Revisited

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

Fit to print

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen reviewed

By Anne Sebba

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Book Review

Diversifying democracy

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk reviewed

By Christopher J. Scalia

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Books

Femmes fatales in fiction and life

American literature is intensely preoccupied with the beautiful female psychopath

By Susan Jonusas

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Book Review

A private life

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff, reviewed

By Micah Mattix

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Book Review

Beautiful and damned

Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford reviewed

By Philip Womack

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Books

Dirty realists

The beauty of dirty realism is that it captures regular life in all its stupefying, and sometimes transcendent, malaise

By Alex Perez

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Exhibitions

Holbein at the Morgan

Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City

By James Panero

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Music

England’s cowpat modernist

Ralph Vaughan Williams is caricatured as a populist purveyor of ‘folky-wolky’ melodies

By Richard Bratby

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Music

Messenger service

First Flight to Tokyo by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers reviewed

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Theater

Michael Jackson on Broadway

MJ: The Musical reviewed

By Robert S. Erickson

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Film

Troubles in paradise

Belfast reviewed

By Alex Perez

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Film

Buster’s land stand

Buster Keaton is again of the moment

By Peter Tonguette

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Podcasts

Power couple

Cover Story: Power Trip and Power Corrupts reviewed

By Jessa Crispin

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