FROM THE MAGAZINE

October 2022

Books

Free expression after the Rushdie attack

It was an assault on literary free speech itself

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

Bob Dylan, the song and dance man

A new biography captures his entire world

By Anne Margaret Daniel

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Book Review

Exploring the decline of Britain’s birds

Patrick Galbraith’s latest goes searching for kittiwakes and grouses

By Andrew McKean

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Books

Has the American novel abandoned God?

Our literary life today speaks of a crisis of faith

By Fergus Butler-Gallie

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Book Review

The Soviets brought far from home

Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow

By Francesca Peacock

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Book Review

A haunting novel remembers 1990s Ukraine

Explored commonalities between Ukraine and Russia have since erupted into war

By Will Collins

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Exhibitions

John Singer Sargent comes to Spain

The artist created his own synthetic Spanish vision

By James Panero

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Exhibitions

Kimono Style is more than just East-meets-West fashion

It is also a glimpse into a mystifying period of Japanese history

By Jane Coombs

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Film

Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser

An action movie can be good or woke, but not both

By Peter Tonguette

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Film

Bodies Bodies Bodies cancels its characters to death

It’s a successful satire of cancel culture that never hectors or patronizes

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Music

A visit to Louis Armstrong’s old home

In any assessment of jazz’s founding fathers, he has to stand as the most influential figure

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Theater

Weighing in on the unauthorized Hamilton

It was probably inevitable that the culture wars would come for the show

By Robert S. Erickson

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Television

The deeply human Walking Dead

The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery

By James McCain

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