Arts & Culture
A 21st-century Polish epic
Based on historical events, Olga Tokarczuk’s massive novel is simultaneously heartbreaking and comic.
Glass Onion threads the Agatha Christie needle
A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary—and great fun.
The great and strange John Donne
Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.
How real is Wakanda?
Speculative fiction, at its best, can inspire collaboration by artists and writers and ordinary fans.
Reading The Waste Land as it turns 100
T. S. Eliot’s epic poem is a masterpiece—but what do we do with its view of classical Western tradition?