Reflections September 2020
True lies
On the Italian turncoat and fabulist Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.
On the Italian turncoat and fabulist Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.
On Malcolm Bradbury and his novel of choices.
Rereading André Gide’s Souvenirs de la cour d’assises.
On the quiet intimacy of the Dutch painter’s work.
On the voice of wounded Hellenism.
On the composer’s musical response to John Donne’s poetry.
On the uses and abuses of the British honors system.
On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger.
On the inheritance of I. M. Pei.
On Norton Simon’s legacy in the art world.