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John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised?
LIARMOUTHA Feel-Bad RomanceBy John Waters240 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26.In a…
‘Tacky’ Finds the Joy in Bad Taste
TACKYLove Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to OfferBy Rax King193…
Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist
BOSTON — In the summer of 2020, looking over a checklist of…
After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit
BOSTON — On Oct. 16, 1970, the American painter Philip Guston, who…
14 New Books Coming in May
‘All the Lovers in the Night,’ by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam…
What to Do in London: Platinum Jubilee, ‘Bridgerton’ Events and More
London is springing back to life. Heathrow Airport reports that March 2022…
How to Look at a Basquiat
It’s not every day that New Yorkers can choose between two concurrent…
In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight
The prospect of Federer’s retirement from tennis is just a fraction of…
Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’
“Are Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews,” she writes, “and…