Reflections February 2022
Henry James & the Great War
On the author’s final years in England.
Department: “Reflections”
Reflections January 2022
Hornblower at the helm
On the series of novels by C. S. Forster.
Reflections December 2021
Leaves of the White Rose
On Sophie Scholl and young German resistance fighters.
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.
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.