FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2021

Podcasts

So many stories are boring

Adam McKay’s podcast offers an antidote

By Jessa Crispin

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Film

The last American video store

Video killed the video store

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Book Review

Nature is healing

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn reviewed

By Thomas W. Hodgkinson

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Book Review

Bright and beautiful

Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn reviewed

By Alex Preston

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Music

Along came Bill Evans

No matter his personal woes, Evans almost always vouchsafed his listeners something not merely to dig but to cherish

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Book Review

Five intrepid women

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology by Frances Larson reviewed

By Caroline Moore

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Book Review

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, quite contrary

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu by Jo Willett reviewed

By Ian Thomson

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Books

The soul of Flannery O’Connor

Was Flannery O’Connor a racist, or was she not?

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Art

Meet the Medici at the Met

Bad politics often make good art. That’s especially true when the art is tasked with making sense of political senselessness

By James Panero

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Books

Best of the Old West

Larry McMurtry (1936-2021)

By Taki

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Book Review

The trouble with defining Englishness

Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain by Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones reviewed

By Simon Heffer

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Music

Take a trip with Hawkwind

Hawkwind played notes from underground, but they had a global influence

By D.J. Taylor

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Book Review

Approximately Bob Dylan

The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin reviewed

By Andrew Motion

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