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Entering the White Cube gallery in London, visitors can hear the whirr of busy machinery. It is not difficult to…
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Entering the White Cube gallery in London, visitors can hear the whirr of busy machinery. It is not difficult to…
Life as We Made It. By Beth Shapiro. Basic Books; 352 pages; $30. Oneworld; £18.99 HUMANS ARE a force of…
It would be wrong to say that Irish people do not commemorate the Great Famine. Since Ireland gained independence from…
Funny business, the suspension of disbelief. Some disbeliefs are more suspendable than others. In six decades on screen, James Bond…
The Exponential Age. By Azeem Azhar. Diversion Books; 352 pages; $28.99. Published in Britain as “Exponential”; Random House Business; £20…
Silverview. By John le Carré. Viking; 224 pages; $28 and £20 WHEN JOHN LE CARRé died last December, he left…
ARTISTS HAVE been reimagining the “Divine Comedy” for most of the 700 years since Dante Alighieri’s death. A silent-movie version…
OPEN A TEXTBOOK for a foreign language, and one of the first things you see is an alphabet, enumerating the…
Hollywood loves making films about the movie industry. In this genre, the peculiarities of Tinseltown are sent up—from the enormous…
The scene is familiar. Ranked rows of seats face a small platform, with desks full of administrative clutter: laptops, files…