Arts & Culture

Ken Burns Does Da Vinci

In a previous interview with Ken Burns, the director told me, “If I was given 1,000 years, I would not run out of topics of American history.” It turns...

What Quiet Meditation on an Eastern Himalayan Moth Can Teach Us

‘Nocturnes’ just concluded its play at Metrograph in New York. It is currently playing at Royal in Los...

Boogey, man!: Resurrecting our All Hallows Eve Top 40

Originally published on Oct. 31, 2023For some of us, Halloween is the only holiday that matters. A pagan...

Novelizations Have Risen From the Grave

“It’s the genre that allows you to take the biggest swings,” says writer and publisher Mark Alan Miller...

A Restless Restitution in Africa

Three years ago, 26 royal objects looted by French troops in the 1890s were returned from Paris’s Musée...

Coming of Age in the Shadow of 9/11

In his new book, “Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life,” Richard Beck presents a compelling case that the post-9/11 era is still...

Who’s Afraid of Free Trade?

For decades after the Cold War, American capitalism was deeply if incompletely invested in liberalized global trade. NAFTA and other accords aimed to eliminate...

No Place for Sissies

Old age, said Bette Davis, is no place for sissies. Neither, she might have added, is the Hudson Valley in winter. “I Like it...

Ken Burns Does Da Vinci