The Muppets take QueensJim Henson, master of puppetsA retrospective looks at the extraordinary breadth of a brilliant, too-short careerJul 25th 2017
How Westeros is wonWhat is the moral compass of “Game of Thrones”?Being good does not get you to the top. But neither does pure evil. What does it take to run the Seven Kingdoms? Jul 24th 2017
Risk aversion in golfJordan Spieth′s Open victory illustrates the perils of playing it safeAs Matt Kuchar′s title drought shows, slow and steady is not the best way to playJul 23rd 2017
Sculpture in four dimensionsAlexander Calder made time a sculptural mediumThough familiarity has made him seem safe, the American sculptor was a pioneerprint-edition iconJul 20th 2017
Intellectual ferment and literal stenchLondon’s hot and busy summer of 1858Dickens, Disraeli and Darwin made a sweltering year a memorable one in England’s historyprint-edition iconJul 20th 2017
A new classicCerebral and tense, “Dunkirk” is a remarkable film Christopher Nolan’s war epic boasts interlocking storylines, elegant cinematography and an unforgettable score Jul 21st 2017
Voices from the darkness“City of Ghosts” is an extraordinary look at journalism in RaqqaA new documentary film follows the citizens fighting Islamic State on a different frontier: informationJul 20th 2017
Painful memoriesItaly and the Addis Ababa massacreFor Italians, it was a garden-variety colonial atrocity. For Ethiopians it was a modern war crimeprint-edition iconJul 20th 2017
The Americanisms are comingFears of British English’s disappearance are overblownAmerica is influencing all kinds of English, not just the British kind. But diversity is safe for a long time yetprint-edition iconJul 20th 2017
Memory as a weaponRemembering the Great Patriotic War was a political actSvetlana Alexievich’s “The Unwomanly Face of War” was part of a peculiarly Soviet debate about the pastprint-edition iconJul 20th 2017
Teenage diarist extraordinaireA new musical aims to introduce Adrian Mole to a younger generationDo the afflictions of Britain’s longest-suffering teenager still resonate?Jul 19th 2017
Out of stepRevisiting “Jewels”, 50 years onGeorge Balanchine’s ballet is a symbol of the art form’s elitist history Jul 19th 2017
The will to fightTwo documentaries probe Myanmar’s religious strife“Sittwe” and “The Venerable W.” present the festering relations between the Rohingya and BuddhistsJul 17th 2017
