FROM THE MAGAZINE

August 2023

Books

Taking a trip to Russoville

Richard Russo doesn’t do fireworks. Dazzling metaphorical flights are not his thing

By D.J. Taylor

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Books

Blood Meridian is Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece

It may be the Great American Novel critics have searched for

By Aaron Gwyn

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Book Review

William Boyd’s latest novel is immense fun

In The Romantic, it’s as if Boyd has distilled the essence of centuries of novel-writing

By Philip Womack

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Book Review

Visiting a forgotten chapter in American history

We May Dominate the World is a work of prodigious scholarship, featuring an extraordinary breadth and depth of sources

By David J. Garrow

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Book Review

Elliot Page’s memoir is a tale of tragic self-destruction

For the author, transgenderism was an escape hatch

By Madeleine Kearns

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Television

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back

With a new Netflix documentary and series, the actor is ubiquitous once again

By Alexander Larman

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Theater

Jane Clark Scharl delivers artful truths in Sonnez Les Matines

The play is, alas, unlikely to attract a large following in the theater

By Robert S. Erickson

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Art

The brilliant, underappreciated work of Germaine Richier

Despite her institutional recognition in France, Richier is not as well-known outside her native country as she deserves to be

By Francesca Peacock

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Painting

Inside the traditional art revolution

The cultural hegemony of contemporary abstract art is slowly beginning to crack

By Alessandra Bocchi

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