FROM THE MAGAZINE

July 2021

Film

Watching The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window reviewed

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Podcasts

Mind of a murderer

Podcasting rose on the true crime boom — and it’s still the easiest way to build a show and an audience

By Jessa Crispin

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Music

No success like failure

Why does no one talk about how most artistic careers end in failure?

By Rosie Millard

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Dance

The dark history of dance marathons

The craze that swept the US in the Roaring Twenties became a theater of cruelty that fed on the desperation of Depression-era Americans

By Stuart Jeffries

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Exhibitions

Girls on film

New Woman Behind the Camera brings together the whimsical and the confrontational to show how modernism shaped photography

By Katrina Gulliver

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Books

Is caste the American class system?

Only in fiction did Faulkner dare to reveal what he knew about the code of caste

By Carl Rollyson

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Book Review

Clive Bell: apostle of modernism

Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism by Mark Hussey reviewed

By Tom Williams

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Book Review

Men of letters

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick reviewed

By Peter Parker

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Music

The legend of forgotten musical genius Mieczyslaw Weinberg

Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer

By Damian Thompson

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Book Review

Unsuitable attachments

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne reviewed

By Philip Hensher

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Film

Vacation time

The enduring popularity of the Vacation series reflects not just the American appetite for travel, but also that old American virtue of gung-ho optimism

By Peter Tonguette

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Book Review

Napoleon, the constant gardener

Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr reviewed

By David Crane

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