ESSAYS
HABEAS CORPUS
Egon Schiele, dead a hundred years ago this October, was a demigod to postwar rockers and punks. What is left of his bad manners in the age of Snapchat and sexting?
by Matthew J. Abrams
LOVE AND THEFT
Six years ago the German tax police entered a modest apartment and found more than a thousand works of art. What crimes lie beneath the Gurlitt Collection, and can pictures testify to them? A report from Bonn and Bern.
by James McAuley
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
Michel Houellebecq envisioned a
France whose politicians were so exhausted that a young upstart could break the system. He was almost right: it was Emmanuel Macron.
by Cody Delistraty
INTERVIEWS
GIUSEPPE PENONE
November 14, 2017, 12:00 p.m., in a conference room in midtown Manhattan
LUCY MCKENZIE
September11, 2017, 3:00p.m., in the artist's studio in the south of Brussels
REVIEWS
I. London is good enough for some, but the true
British artistic powerhouse is Glasgow: restless, experimental, and proudly European. Too bad about those referenda.
by Susannah Thompson
II. In 1947, the year of
Indian independence, a French photojournalist made his first visit to the subcontinent. Cartier-Bresson's images of a new nation gave a later Indian photographer his vocation.
by Kanishk Tharoor
III. Even after the bubble burst, Tokyo remained a city under constant construction. Now the Olympics are coming to town—and
Japan's scrap-and-build mindset faces some concrete obstacles.
by Andrew Maerkle
NEGATIVES
The first great European novel
The subtle charm of Tonya Harding
Ballet's gender-free future
Google shifts from Chrome to condos
Marriage advice for Meghan Markle
PORTFOLIO
The photography of MICHELE BORZONI: economics, Italian style
