FROM THE MAGAZINE

April 2024

Book Review

Where is the clarity in modern center-right foreign policy?

Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea suggest a response to the new isolationism that is essential for understanding contemporary foreign policy debates on the right

By Ben Domenech

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Book Review

An impressive examination of the conjoined fates of Iraq and the United States

Steve Coll’s title alludes to Homer, and his subject matter has the arc of Greek tragedy

By Clement Knox

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Book Review

An unvarnished insight into the mind of Sonny Rollins

Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring

By Philip Clark

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Book Review

A look into Billie Holiday’s final year

Paul Alexander is on a mission to correct what he sees as misrepresentations of the singer’s life and personality

By Alison Kerr

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Book Review

Who’s afraid of Judith Butler?

The gender theorist’s first mainstream publication is unconvincing

By Mitchell Jackson

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Film

The intriguing revival of the British gangster picture

It is unlikely that either Sexy Beast or The Gentlemen will have their legacies seriously challenged by the television series based on them

By Alexander Larman

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Film

Reconsidering Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice

If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature

By Amelia Butler-Gallie

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Music

Revisiting Kurt Cobain, three decades after his death

Why are we still so fascinated with the grunge icon?

By Christopher Sandford

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Theater

Finally, a version of Merrily We Roll Along that works

Director Maria Friedman has harnessed revelatory performances from her three leads to create a theatrical masterpiece

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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Architecture

Notre-Dame rising

The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?

By William Newton

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