FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2024

Book Review

Who’s really behind the Biden administration’s foreign policy?

Alexander Ward’s carefully researched new account argues Biden is POTUS in name only

By David J. Garrow

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Book Review

Coleman Hughes’s case for a colorblind future

The End of Race Politics expands on the arguments the writer has made for several years

By Adrian Nguyen

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Book Review

War hero, bon viveur, Japanese spy: Frederick Rutland wore many masks

Beverly Hills Spy is the story of the espionage war with Japan, and the damaging rivalry between intelligence services that prevented them from working together

By Mark Piesing

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Books

The frustrating rise of celebrities ‘writing’ children’s books

When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising

By Philip Womack

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Book Review

The wit and wisdom of Margaret Cavendish

As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s Pure Wit is truly delightful

By Lisa Hilton

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Book Review

Edward Zwick on his hits — and his misses

Hits, Flops and Other Illusions is a fascinating book, both for what it includes and what it either omits or deals with in parentheses

By Alexander Larman

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Television

The loss of Joss Whedon

Even post-cancellation, we still live in the pop culture universe the screenwriter created

By Mitchell Jackson

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Dance

Dita Von Teese, the once and forever burlesque star

‘I feel I’ve been rewarded for following my own path,’ she reflects, ‘and for taking the road less traveled’

By Cat Woods

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Theater

Spring’s hottest theatrical openings on Broadway

For theater aficionados, there is hope

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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Art

The divine Dalí and his ‘Christ’

In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it

By William Newton

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