Nope: Jordan Peele’s Overstuffed Horror-Western
Whatever its problems, Nope achieves at least one clear success.
Magazine: Culture
Sing It: Marilyn Horne
She is a formidable, marvelous, unique woman, Marilyn Horne.
Gender Ideology’s Origin Story
A review of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, by Abigail Favale.
The Path to Black Flourishing
A review of The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic, by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, edited by W. B. Allen.
Robert Lowell’s Fruitful Agony
A review of Memoirs, by Robert Lowell, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc.
The Department of Woke
Everything’s up to date at Foggy Bottom.
The Great Gatsby and the Glories of Capitalism
A review of Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings, 1920–1926, edited by James L. W. West II.
Traitor King: The Duke of Windsor’s Dishonor
A review of Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, by Andrew Lownie.
How to Heal Our Abortion-Scarred Country
A review of Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing, by Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis.
The Crooked Heart of W. H. Auden
A review of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I: 1927–1939 and Volume II: 1940–1973, edited by Edward Mendelson.