Arts & Culture
All in with Wes Anderson
Asteroid City might be the most Anderson of all his films, and I came to it like an acolyte who is doubting the mystery.
Rose Macaulay was ahead of her time
In Crewe Train, the neglected Anglo-Catholic novelist tells the story of a woman who resolutely does not fit in.
From Meg Hitchcock’s Illuminations
(clockwise from left) Emerge from Invisibility and Become Visible; Of His Vast Almighty Head; The Hundreds and Thousands of My Forms; The Ferryman; The Nine Eyes Widely Opened
Welcome to the commodity biopic
These movies about influential consumer objects aren’t really origin stories at all.
Sing a rights-cleared song to the Lord
“Each report we receive at ONE LICENSE turns into a royalty payment,” says Brenna Cronin, “and those payments are someone’s livelihood.”
The book editor who inadvertently helped empty America’s pews
Stephen Prothero’s biography of Eugene Exman reveals how the bestsellers he acquired taught people to be spiritual but not religious.
