FROM THE MAGAZINE

December 2021

Books

Books of the Year 2021

Our best reads and most pertinacious page-turners of 2021

By The Spectator

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Book Review

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing

March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reviewed

By Robert D. Kaplan

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Books

The Road Not Traveled

A short story

By William Boyd

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Art

A brush with Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell was a female star of the Abstract Expressionist boys’ club

By Andrew L. Shea

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Exhibitions

Prints of Wales and elsewhere

Amid the turbulence of modernism, British artists made art for themselves

By James Panero

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Theater

Broadway’s back(side)

Six and Chicken & Biscuits reviewed

By Robert S. Erickson

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Exhibitions

A dream of a dress

It’s easy to see why Dior still rules the red carpet

By Jane Coombs

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Music Review

Roy Hargrove doubles up

For anyone looking for a stocking stuffer for the aficionado — or merely the lover — of good music, here it is

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Music

Sounds of Christmas past

I tend to associate Christmas music with the records I received as gifts when I was a kid

By Luke Haines

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Podcasts

Fashion, fairies and folklore

As every sullen teenager knows, headphones are a great way to escape the family gathering and retreat inward

By Jessa Crispin

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