Reflections September 2020
True lies
On the Italian turncoat and fabulist Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.
Department: “Reflections”
Reflections June 2020
Another look at “The History Man”
On Malcolm Bradbury and his novel of choices.
Reflections May 2020
Gide’s judgment
Rereading André Gide’s Souvenirs de la cour d’assises.
Reflections April 2020
The astonishing Pieter de Hooch
On the quiet intimacy of the Dutch painter’s work.
Reflections March 2020
The Greece of George Seferis
On the voice of wounded Hellenism.
Reflections February 2020
Britten’s Holy Sonnets
On the composer’s musical response to John Donne’s poetry.
Reflections January 2020
Courting dishonor
On the uses and abuses of the British honors system.
Reflections December 2019
The importance of being Ernst
On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger.
Reflections October 2019
The architect of abstraction
On the inheritance of I. M. Pei.
Reflections September 2019
Simon buys for less
On Norton Simon’s legacy in the art world.