Books
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A Brief Guide to Who’s Who on Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’
Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets.
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On ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ Taylor Swift Could Use an Editor
Over 16 songs (and a second LP), the pop superstar litigates her recent romances. But the themes, and familiar sonic…
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Poets’ Arrives With a Promotional Blitz (and a Second LP)
The pop superstar’s latest album was preceded by a satellite radio channel, a word game, a return to TikTok and…
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Philharmonic Opens Inquiry After Misconduct Allegations Are Revived
The New York Philharmonic commissioned an outside investigation into its culture after a magazine article explored how it handled an…
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Review: In ‘Suffs,’ the Thrill of the Vote and How She Got It
Shaina Taub’s new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women’s suffrage is smart and noble and a…
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A Stunning Visual Celebration of Black Rodeo
In several frames of the artist Arthur Jafa’s seminal 2016 video collage of Black America, “Love Is the Message, the…
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Spooks, Sleuths and the Nazi Origins of the War on Drugs
In the years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland,…
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Lord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase…
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8 Hits of the Venice Biennale
They used to call this waterlogged city the Most Serene Republic, but there is nothing serenissima about the opening days…
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Books Bound in Human Skin: An Ethical Quandary at the Library
Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a…