FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2023

Book Review

Hoover damned

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage reviewed

By David J. Garrow

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Books

The art of the royal memoir

Britain’s royal family sells books like nobody’s business

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

From Russia with love

Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy reviewed

By Amanda Craig

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Book Review

Behind closed doors

The Cloisters by Katy Hays reviewed

By Philip Womack

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Book Review

Bret Easton Ellis’s comeback is a bloody masterpiece

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis reviewed

By York Underwood

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Book Review

Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions

How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?

By Jack Sinclair

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Book Review

The struggle of the female musician

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad reviewed

By Anne Sebba

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Theater

The Some Like It Hot revival is cream-puff theater

It reduces a charged premise to something more mundane

By Robert S. Erickson

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Film

The death of the movie star

Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king

By Sam Wasson

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Music

Playing God with Paramore

What happens when someone who was cool because they were hated is suddenly accepted?

By Mitchell Jackson

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Exhibitions

In Claude Monet’s postmodern garden

I began to find the uncanny experience transporting

By James Panero

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Art

The shock and awe-inspiring art of Iraq

After decades of disorder, the country has a budding art scene

By Adrian Brune

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