FROM THE MAGAZINE

July 2022

Book Review

The rise of gay Washington

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick reviewed

By David J. Garrow

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Book Review

The circus that was 80s literary Britain

A new book remembers all the excitement and absurdity

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

How not to live a life

Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill reviewed

By Arabella Byrne

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Book Review

NIMBYs to the left of me, YIMBYs to the left

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran reviewed

By Addison Del Mastro

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Book Review

Helen DeWitt’s brilliance and unsuccess

The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt reviewed

By Maria Albano

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Books

Lost in translation

Why are we so content to minimize and forget the work of translators?

By Francesca Peacock

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Exhibitions

The one-note wonder

The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse

By Eric Gibson

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Exhibitions

Playing the long game

Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago

By Xico Greenwald

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Music

A concert begun in darkness

Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Film

How green is your Soylent?

A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022

By Tom Meek

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Film

Why did no one see The Northman?

The movie may be the last of its kind

By Will Hill

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Theater

Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play

Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours

By Robert S. Erickson

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