Reconsiderations March 2013
Not the greatest generation
Looking back at Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations February 2013
Iris Murdoch’s “Marsyas”
Reexamining Iris Murdoch, her love of culture, and Marsyas.
Reconsiderations May 2012
Beauty is not for us to make
On Rainer Maria Rilke.
Reconsiderations February 2012
Dwight Macdonald reconsidered
On the editor of the Partisan Review.
Reconsiderations October 2011
Comedy in “The Magic Mountain”
On Thomas Mann’s sense of humor.
Reconsiderations June 2011
Forging the special relationship
On Teddy Roosevelt’s crucial role in forming the Anglo-American alliance.
Reconsiderations March 2011
He, the living
On the vision of Boris Pasternak.
Reconsiderations January 2011
Baudelaire’s dark mirror
On the affinity between Baudelaire & Delacroix.
Reconsiderations June 2010
Rojas & the modern novel
A reappraisal of La Celestina.
Reconsiderations March 2010
Knight of the white elephant
On the life & times of the great McGonagall.