Reflections October 2021
Uncut gems
On the new Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Department: “Reflections”
Reflections September 2021
New worlds
On a discovery of fifteenth-century Venetian glass beads in Alaska.
Reflections June 2021
The cooling of John le Carré
On the British spy novelist.
Reflections June 2021
The right angle
On Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.
Reflections May 2021
The cost of words
On the history and economics of the written word.
Reflections May 2021
Man & beast
On the un-zooing of the zoo.
Reflections March 2021
The middle ground of fiction
On some midcentury bestsellers.
Reflections February 2021
Stepping stones
On collecting books.
Reflections February 2021
Meeting Mrs. Mandelstam
On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
Reflections January 2021
The ordinary ennobled
On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.