FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2022

Book Review

Who killed Bambi?

The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten reviewed

By Andrew Stuttaford

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Book Review

The invisible hand

The Maid by Nita Prose reviewed

By Amanda Craig

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Books

One hundred years of Ulysses

James Joyce’s Ulysses caused a sensation on its publication a century ago

By Patrick Hastings

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Books

On literary cross-dressing

The pre-woke literary world considered authorial freedom sacrosanct

By Alex Perez

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Book Review

Style and substance

Réginald-Jérôme de Mans evokes a Parisian world of glittering elegance

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Books

Stacking up

Substack gives authors an opportunity to take back control of their own careers and destinies

By Alexander Larman

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Exhibitions

Kandinsky’s colors

Kandinsky is getting spun up the Guggenheim’s spiral

By Mario Naves

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Music

Wynton’s works

Wynton Marsalis has not allowed tradition to become self-serving traditionalism

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Exhibitions

How did Walt Disney learn from Ancien Régime decoration?

Inspiring Walt Disney makes the case that Disney’s studio functioned in a similar way to an eighteenth-century decorative art manufactory

By Jane Coombs

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Theater

Truth in Duluth

Girl from the North Country is a delight as pure as birdsong

By Robert S. Erickson

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Film

Jake Gyllenhaal is guilty

He carries his latest film and keeps it from going off the rails

By Alex Perez

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Film

Richard Lester at ninety

He lent ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ the spirit of untamed frivolity

By Peter Tonguette

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Podcasts

Carry that weight

Not just women’s health but sexual health in general has been understudied by the medical community for a long time

By Jessa Crispin

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