Reflections December 2022
Rex publicus
On the mystique of the British monarchy.
Department: “Reflections”
Reflections September 2022
Doing the country like Cézanne
On the influence of Paul Cézanne on Ernest Hemingway.
Reflections June 2022
The improving Bardini
On art restorers and dealers in Florence.
Reflections May 2022
Blood & treasure
On efforts to reclaim the Guelph Treasure.
Reflections April 2022
Fielding as a moralist
On the eighteenth-century English novelist.
Reflections February 2022
Henry James & the Great War
On the author’s final years in England.
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.