Notebook January 2021
Prize time in Paris
On the many book prizes of Paris and their attendant traditions.
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Notebook October 2020
William Seale’s approach to preservation
On the life and work of the historian of the White House.
Notebook September 2020
A classical illness
On the pathology of recent protests.
Notebook September 2020
Richard Gilder, 1932–2020
On the life of one of New York City’s great philanthropists.
Notebook June 2020
The choleric outbreak
On anger and its contemporary causes.
Notebook May 2020
Samuel Pepys’s merry plague-time
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
Notebook March 2020
J. P. Stern & the sum of all things
On the prolific critic of German literature.
Notebook January 2020
John Simon, 1925–2019
Remembering the cultural critic and longtime New Criterion contributor.
Notebook November 2019
Up against the wall
On The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico by Ian Volner.
Notebook October 2019
Under the Syrian soil
On the imperiled excavations in the Middle East.