From the Archives: Edmund Wilson on Ulysses

Prognostications

Where Did the Beach Boys’ Sound Come From?

The Need to Lead

Picasso's Struggle to Reconcile Feeling and Form

Doc Watson’s Appalachian Swing

Meet a Leading Evangelist in the Movement to Introduce Modern Art to America

David Thomson on Films: ‘Girls’ is Great, But What Will Lena Dunham Do Next?

Go-Go, From Scopitone to Chuck Brown

The Price of Everything

The Border Crossers

Pride and Poetry

Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Facts and Fantasies

Crude Comedy, Sound Politics: What ‘The Dictator’ Gets Right

David Thomson on Films: How Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Became Shadows of Their Former Selves

How Rufus Wainwright’s New Album Expresses the Joys of Parenthood

Farewell to Maurice Sendak, a Democratic Artistic Genius

Remembering Maurice Sendak, Who Brought Loneliness to Children's Literature

The Imaginative Naturalism of Édouard Vuillard

David Thomson on Films: Happy Birthday to an American Icon We No Longer Deserve