Books
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The Costume Institute Wakes Up Sleeping Beauty in the Chemistry Lab
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute announced its 2024 spring blockbuster show would be called “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” a lot of head-scratching ensued. Was this a show about Disney costumes? Princess frocks? Now ...
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In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?
Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try.
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Most Wrongful Death Lawsuits Tied to Astroworld Festival Are Settled
The rapper Travis Scott and the concert promoter Live Nation faced 10 suits after the 2021 tragedy. One case from the family of a 9-year-old victim is pending.
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What Happens Next for Kendrick Lamar and Drake? Let’s Discuss.
After a week of bitter diss tracks, a conversation about how the rap battle played out for the chart-topping rappers and how their personas and careers might be affected.
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Why Britain Keeps Giving Classic Movies New Ratings
As the attitudes of moviegoers evolve, so do the guidelines of the ratings board, which has reclassified dozens of films including “Mary Poppins” and “Rocky.”
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Review: Need Good Dances? Try Tharp
The Gibney Company’s program at the Joyce Theater includes two Twyla Tharp dances from the 1970s.
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Neil Gaiman Has a Hero Out of Step in a Book Out of Time
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
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Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
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The Teenage Witches Are Growing Up
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.