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The Hillary in Our Future

Peter Schweizer’s ‘Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich’

Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich

by Peter Schweizer


Dreams and Anna Karenina

Tolstoy’s understanding of the sly techniques of dream-creation is at the heart of his novelist’s enterprise

In the New Whitney

Renzo Piano’s colossal achievement

America Is Hard to See

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, May 1–September 27, 2015


Looking After the Knausgaards

‘My Struggle: Book Four’

My Struggle: Book Four

by Karl Ove Knausgaard


A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society

‘Inequality: What Can Be Done?’ by Anthony Atkinson

Inequality: What Can Be Done?

by Anthony B. Atkinson


The Rothschild Taste

They like to do things well, but they prefer to do them really really well

The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor

by Mrs. James de Rothschild

Personal Characteristics from French History

by Ferdinand Rothschild

The Salon Doré from the Hôtel de la Trémoille

edited by Martin Chapman

Paintings: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor

by Ellis Waterhouse

Sculpture: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor

by Terence Hodgkinson

Architecture and Panelling: The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor

by Bruno Pons

The Savonnerie: The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor

by Pierre Verlet

Sacred Stitches: Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor

by Rachel Boak

Drawings for Architecture Design and Ornament: The James A. de Rothschild Bequest at Waddesdon Manor

by Alastair Laing and others

Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor

by Juliet Carey

A Rothschild Renaissance: Treasures from the Waddesdon Bequest

by Dora Thornton

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The Bombs in Boston

The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

by Masha Gessen

Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City’s Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice

by Scott Helman and Jenna Russell


The Renaissance of the Sultans

Richly eclectic and heartbreakingly beautiful Deccani art

The Visual World of Muslim India: The Art, Culture and Society of the Deccan in the Early Modern Era

edited by Laura E. Parodi, with a foreword by Richard M. Eaton

Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 20–July 26, 2015


On Edward Hopper

The tendency to create narratives around the works of Hopper only sentimentalizes and trivializes them

Digital Journalism: The Next Generation

For all the resources and attention, the results thus far seem dishearteningly modest

‘There, This Is Life’

Rendez-vous with Art

by Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford


Splendor in Ford’s Detroit

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit

an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, March 15–July 12, 2015


The Lure of Life on the Missouri

Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River

an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, October 2, 2014–January 18, 2015; the Saint Louis Art Museum, February 22–May 17, 2015; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, June 17–September 20, 2015


The Case of the Skeptical Pragmatist

The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

by Mark Greif


Gaudí’s Great Temple

The intensely personal yet embracingly universal Sagrada Família

Sagrada Família: Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece, Geometry, Construction and Site

an exhibition at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, September 29, 2014–May 8, 2015


Peter Doig: The Transformer

Peter Doig

an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, November 23, 2014–March 22, 2015; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, April 17–August 16, 2015

Peter Doig

an exhibition at the Palazzetto Tito, Venice, May 5–October 4, 2015

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