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With every tournament, the possibility of a genuine surprise is shrinking, Anthony Lane writes.
Trump’s Election-Fraud Bait and Switch
Ruth Marcus writes about President Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday, July 16th, about supposed threats to election security, as the…
A Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World
Dan Chiasson writes on “Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments,” a posthumous collection by the poet, who died, in…
Peter Hujar’s Search for Secrets
Hilton Als reviews “Hujar:Contact,” at the Morgan Library. The photographer’s portraits bring certain truths to the surface.
Who Owns the Odyssey?
The director Christopher Nolan has been accused of “woke-ifying” Homer’s epic. But finding new resonance in ancient texts is part…
Mother Tongue
Judith Thurman on a translator whose vitally urgent renderings of the Iliad and the Odyssey strip away the “tarnish of…
Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art
Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and…
Christopher Nolan Has Always Been Making “The Odyssey”
Justin Chang writes that, in this adaptation of Homer’s epic, the director’s signature realism grounds, without dispelling, the drama’s emotional…
Donald Trump’s Ad-Lib Strategy on Iran
After a quarter century of wars in the Middle East, America is once again bedevilled by an intractable conflict of…
How Mudlarking Became London’s Hottest Hobby
Sam Knight writes about the English detectorist subculture of mudlarking, where ancient artifacts are spotted and dug out of the…