Reflections June 2021
The cooling of John le Carré
On the British spy novelist.
Department: “Reflections”
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.
Reflections December 2020
Political passions
On the lessons of two stories by Guy de Maupassant and Marcel Prévost.
Reflections November 2020
Killing time with Agatha Christie
On revisiting the works of the British mystery writer.