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James Wolcott


James Wolcott is a columnist for AIR MAIL. He first gained national prominence as a columnist for The Village Voice in the the 1970s and later became Vanity Fair’s cultural critic, while also contributing to The New Yorker. He is the author of several books, including the memoir Lucking Out and Critical Mass, a collection of essays and reviews. Wolcott lives in New York with his wife, the dance and art critic Laura Jacobs.

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Cataclysm: The 1972 Diane Arbus Retrospective Revisited

Holding Still

Blondie: Against the Odds 1974–1982

Heat Wave

Michael Mann’s new book, which serves as both a prequel and a sequel to his classic 1995 film, brings back the heat

William Klein: YES. Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013

Always in Fashion

A major retrospective highlights the many sides of famed photographer William Klein

How It’s Done: The Cinema of James Wong Howe

The First Couple of Pop Art

Diane Arbus: Photographs

The Collaboration

A Fistful of Donald

For $75, you too can buy a gaudy, gold-accented coffee-table book featuring all things Trump. Proceeds go to MAGA and Mar-a-Lago

Westward Hokum

How did Taylor Sheridan spin Yellowstone into America’s top-rated drama?

Back to Blaxploitation

Fish Out of Water

Purgatory Confidential

Once upon a Time in Tribeca

Halston’s Halcyon Days

The mononymous American designer behind Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat gets the ending he deserves in Ryan Murphy’s new series

Broadway’s Light

Are We Clear?

Scientology TV picks up where Tom Cruise’s crusade against psychiatry left off

Monochrome Mania

Long Road Back

Deep-Sea V.R.-ing

Cinema Paradiso

Hear Them Roar

Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer, Norman Mailer, and others battle over “women’s lib” in a rarely seen documentary about the epic 1971 all-star debate