FROM THE MAGAZINE

January 2024

Books

The marvelous Montalbano

The translation of the Montalbano novels from page to screen ranks as an artistic triumph

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Book Review

The heart of Maria Callas’s genius

Daisy Goodwin’s Diva is unequivocal in presenting Callas as a heroine struggling to choose between art and love

By Amanda Craig

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Book Review

A vigorous and persuasive defense of capitalism

Johan Norberg’s A Capitalist Manifesto has much to commend it

By Michael M. Rosen

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Book Review

A definitive biography of Liz and Dick, Hollywood’s most controversial and glamorous couple

Roger Lewis answers what it is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that still hooks us in

By Harry Mount

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Book Review

Wolves of Winter focuses on the brutality of the past

Dan Jones confidently evokes the whorehouses, the illnesses, the death and depravity

By Philip Womack

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Dance

Will ‘accessibility’ ruin ballet?

In the most exquisitely beautiful —and painful — art form, elitism is the show

By Laura Thompson

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Theater

The legacy of Mean Girls and the decline of pop culture

The beloved cult teen film has spawned a new musical to celebrate its twentieth anniversary

By Mitchell Jackson

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Music

Jerry Miller’s tale

Moby Grape could have been a contender but never quite were

By Christopher Sandford

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Exhibitions

The bold new vision for Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland

The galleries are not only an aesthetic pleasure to visit but a fine and salutary reminder of the greatness of Scottish art

By Alexander Larman

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Art

Radical in the Rotunda

With a presidential election this year, it is time to contemplate the iconic work of John Trumbull afresh

By William Newton

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