Limitless Space, Endless Motion
When the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky first saw a tape of Balanchine’s Apollo, he watched in disbelief. Here was elegance without exaggeration, tension and beauty without stagy excess.
January 16, 2025 issue
Passion’s Countervoices
Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley gives full-throated voice to romantic passion and at the same time contains it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.
January 16, 2025 issue
Evolution in the Dock
In her new book, Brenda Wineapple brings to life one of the most inflamed chapters in the history of America’s culture wars: the Scopes trial of 1925.
January 16, 2025 issue
Risky, Ephemeral, Revolutionary Prints
A survey of Mexican printmaking shows how enduringly the country’s illustrators blurred the boundary between art and the world of the working poor.
January 1, 2025
‘Never Too Much’
If globalization has allowed elites to remove themselves from democratic accountability and regulation, is there any path toward a just economy?
January 16, 2025 issue
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Timothy Ferris: Some Like It Hot“George Bush in 1989 made a Kennedyesque proclamation committing the nation to a manned Mars landing by the year 2019, but NASA priced the mission at $450 billion, Congress balked, and the Space Exploration Initiative, as it was called, has been moribund ever since.”
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