Reconsiderations December 2006
Truth & lies
On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations November 2006
David Jones & the sacrament of art
A reconsideration of the poet and visual artist David Jones.
Reconsiderations September 2006
Waugh’s postcolonial studies
A reconsideration of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Black Mischief.
Reconsiderations September 2006
Learning from tools
A criticism of MFA programs and writing workshops, especially as they affect two recent works of fiction.
Reconsiderations June 2006
Art imitates war
A letter from Baghdad.
Reconsiderations May 2006
Shade’s shadow
On Dr. Johnson and Pale Fire.
Reconsiderations March 2006
Bang or whimper?
On the Centre Pompidou’s “Creation and Destruction in Twentieth-Century Art.”
Reconsiderations March 2006
Naughts & crescents
On G. K. Chesterton’s least successful novel.
Reconsiderations February 2006
Wilde, Synge & Orpen
The cultural life of present-day Dublin.
Reconsiderations February 2006
That most awful poem, the Aeneid
A translator’s tragic alliance.