Notebook June 2014
Beauty out of madness
Looking at the Prinzhorn Collection, a collection of artwork by psychotic patients.
Department: “Notebook”
Notebook May 2014
The achievement of Evan S. Connell
Notebook March 2014
The tragi-comedy of A. E. Housman
Notebook February 2014
A book by its cover
On the pleasures and pains of judging the Hippocrates Prize in poetry.
Notebook October 2013
John Hollander, 1929–2013
Remembering the poet John Hollander.
Notebook September 2013
Edmund Sears Morgan, 1916–2013
Remembering the great historian, Edmund Sears Morgan.
Notebook June 2013
On remembering poems
The lost art of memorizing poetry.
Notebook April 2013
Deciphering a cigarette with Joseph Frank
A look at the legacy of literary scholar and Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank (1918–2013).
Notebook March 2013
On solitude: rereading May Sarton’s journals
Notebook February 2013
The conservative queen
On the conservative ways of the Queen Mother.