Reconsiderations March 2017
The Massachusetts Machiavel
On The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn.
On The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn.
On the career and style of the Symbolist painter.
On the architectural vision of John Soane.
On two new publications of the famous correspondence.
On the one-hundredth anniversary of the World War I novel.
On Jacques-Louis David’s moral foibles.
Why Kenneth Clark’s 1969 television show still matters today.
A look at two of important players in the world of historical fiction: Robert Merle and Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
On the mixed critical reception of Robert Burns.
Revisiting the lessons from Rick Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn