FROM THE MAGAZINE

September 2022

Book Review

No stone unturned

Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone, has written a very bad book

By Russ Smith

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Book Review

Porn again

There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity

By Madeleine Kearns

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Books

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at 100

A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization

By Alexander Larman

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Book Review

Paul Theroux’s family values

He’s never been averse to writing about toxic family relationships

By Philip Womack

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Book Review

A.M. Homes’s state of paranoia

Her latest leaves us stranded between serious fiction and a particularly extreme Reddit forum

By Francesca Peacock

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Book Review

The faulty towers of higher education

The college system is broken — can it be fixed?

By Christopher J. Scalia

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Book Review

Frank Buckley’s right direction

Can a socially conservative, economically centrist GOP win elections?

By William Murchison

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Television

The time trap of Irma Vep

The HBO Max miniseries shows a rare interest in the present moment

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Music

Country music finds its independent streak

New singers are bucking bro-country and reconnecting with their roots

By Amber Duke

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Exhibitions

Chroma chameleon

The Met brings out its bread and butter: stunning galleries devoted to Greek and Roman art

By Mario Naves

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Exhibitions

Not your average Jo

Joanna Hiffernan is now at the center of The Woman in White, an exhibition at the NGA

By Jane Coombs

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Television

Closing the curtain on Norm Macdonald’s comedy

He was willing to pulverize all we hold dear in modern America

By Billy McMorris

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Film

Crimes of the Future is David Cronenberg at his best

Which scenes will cause you to walk out or flee in disgust? Caveat emptor

By Gavin Smith

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