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December 2000

Plutarch & the issue of character

by Roger Kimball

On Plutarch as a moralist and historian.

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March 1999

The meanspirited wunderkind

by David Mermelstein

A review of Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

November 1998

“Absolute nonsense”—Gogol’s tales

by Gary Saul Morson

A review of The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, by Nikolai Gogol.

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