Reconsiderations March 2017
The Massachusetts Machiavel
On The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations December 2016
Watts’s pastoral apocalypse
On the career and style of the Symbolist painter.
Reconsiderations November 2016
A life in ruins
On the architectural vision of John Soane.
Reconsiderations October 2016
The letters of Lowell & Bishop
On two new publications of the famous correspondence.
Reconsiderations September 2016
“The Backwash of War” at 100
On the one-hundredth anniversary of the World War I novel.
Reconsiderations June 2016
The master propagandist
On Jacques-Louis David’s moral foibles.
Reconsiderations February 2016
Why “Civilisation” matters
Why Kenneth Clark’s 1969 television show still matters today.
Reconsiderations September 2015
Between the lines of history
A look at two of important players in the world of historical fiction: Robert Merle and Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Reconsiderations June 2015
The heaven-taught ploughman
On the mixed critical reception of Robert Burns.
Reconsiderations March 2015
Fun facts & fascism
Revisiting the lessons from Rick Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn