FROM THE MAGAZINE

October 2021

Book Review

An orange or an egg? Determining the shape of the world

Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas Crane reviewed

By Simon Winchester

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Book Review

Dracula’s children

Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Tale of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon reviewed

By Tessa Dunlop

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Theater

Shakespeare is getting trigger warnings

Shakespeare, after decades of being found to be Problematic, is now being reclaimed as the wokemeister-in-chief

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

The AI future looks positively rosy

12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson reviewed

By Steven Poole

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Music

The triumph of bedroom pop

From Joe Meek to Taylor Swift: a short history of lo-fi

By Robert Barry

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Exhibitions

Flagging energy

Jasper Johns, an art-world darling for decades, is getting a massive museum retrospective

By Andrew L. Shea

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Book Review

How Hitler’s great gamble nearly paid off

The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough reviewed

By Nigel Jones

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Film

Time for Another Round

Another Round reviewed

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Exhibitions

Titian meets Isabella Stewart Gardner

The masterpieces of Titian’s old age have come to Boston

By Martin Gayford

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Book Review

W.G. Sebald’s borrowed truths and barefaced lies

Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald by Carole Angier reviewed

By Lucasta Miller

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Book Review

Lucy Ellmann is angry about everything, especially men

Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann reviewed

By Sarah Ditum

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Book Review

Oliver Cromwell: ruthless in battle — but nice to his men

The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton reviewed

By Marcus Nevitt

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