Notebook May 2020
Samuel Pepys’s merry plague-time
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
On the prolific critic of German literature.
Remembering the cultural critic and longtime New Criterion contributor.
On The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico by Ian Volner.
On the imperiled excavations in the Middle East.
On the life and works of the European historian.
A remembrance of the Hungarian writer and frequent New Criterion contributor.
Highlights from a lifetime of reading.
Remembering the great literary scholar and editor.
A remembrance of the sociologist.