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The West that wasn’t
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Kropotkin’s dead goose
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Delight in Storrs
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The Maecenases
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The Critic’s Notebook
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On James Joyce, Leon Kossoff, Molière & more.
Books in Bologna
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January 24, 2022
On “Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.
Week in review
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January 21, 2022
On Sumerian ghosts, George Orwell & the Natural History Museum.
Style & subject
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January 18, 2022
On “Jane Freilicher and Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions” at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York.
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