The Culture

BOOKS

Claws Out

A British sergeant expects peace and quiet when he’s assigned to a remote island in Nick Harkaway’s new novel, Tigerman, out July 29. Instead, he finds crime rings and impending environmental disasters, which he investigates with the help of a comic-book-loving teen.

ART

Dirty Pictures

Landscapes and the earth’s natural elements are the subjects of a new exhibition, Phantoms in the Dirt, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Featuring images and objects from 16 artists, the show runs through Oct. 5.

For Sugar Ray (2012), Richard Mosse used discontinued infrared film to turn pink the plant life of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo

TELEVISION

Family Secrets

In the SundanceTV miniseries The Honorable Woman (premiering July 31), Belgian actress Lubna Azabal (right) plays a close friend of Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an Anglo-Israeli baroness turning her late father’s arms business into a force for peace in the Middle East.

‘I NEVER BELIEVED IN HELL. EVER.’

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