FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2022

Books

Getting the jokes in Proust

A dismaying number of Proust readers don’t realize it’s supposed to be funny

By Nicola Shulman

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Book Review

Reality bit

True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us by Danielle Lindemann reviewed

By Christopher J. Scalia

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Book Review

Reading gaol

Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis reviewed

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

Picking a fight

Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel reviewed

By Micah Mattix

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Book Review

Sex and the city

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors reviewed

By Philip Womack

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Books

Poor little rich girls

Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson reviewed

By Anne Sebba

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Exhibitions

Hogarth framed

Great artists like Hogarth are getting the trigger-warning treatment

By Michael Mosbacher

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Film

John Wayne behind the blue line

The Seventies weren’t John Wayne’s decade, and that was fine by him

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Film

Serve and volley

King Richard reviewed

By Alex Perez

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Theater

Nanny bait

Mrs. Doubtfire reviewed

By Robert S. Erickson

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Music

Returning to live gigs

When Covid rampaged through the world like a Viking raid of death-cult realtors, the world was suddenly shorn of live music

By Luke Haines

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Music

Get with the program

Both in Pittsburgh and Miami, I was struck by the rousing enthusiasm that the symphony and soloists evoked with their temerarious playing

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Podcasts

Digging it

Tunnel 29 reviewed

By Emily Ferguson

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