Notebook May 2020
Samuel Pepys’s merry plague-time
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
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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.
Notebook September 2019
Norman Stone, 1941–2019
On the life and works of the European historian.
Notebook June 2019
Paul Hollander, 1932–2019
A remembrance of the Hungarian writer and frequent New Criterion contributor.
Notebook May 2019
The last Victorian
Highlights from a lifetime of reading.
Notebook April 2019
Jeffrey Hart, 1930–2019
Remembering the great literary scholar and editor.
Notebook March 2019
Nathan Glazer, 1923–2019
A remembrance of the sociologist.