November 2012
John Silber, 1926–2012
Remembering John Silber, President and Chancellor of Boston University who turned a second-rate commuter school into a world-class research institution.
Remembering John Silber, President and Chancellor of Boston University who turned a second-rate commuter school into a world-class research institution.
The first entry in our series “The digital challenge.” What does the future hold for printed books?
On The Adventures of Roderick Random and Tobias Smollet.
On Henry Mayhew’s magnum opus, London Labour and the London Poor.
On the life, evolution, and legacy of Anton Chekhov.
Coverage of Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Lower River by Paul Theroux, and Voss by Patrick White.
On Through the Yellow Hour, Chaplin, and The Volcano.
On “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950,” which opened at the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, on September 14, 2012 and remains on view through January 6, 2013.
On “Paul Klee—Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art,” which opened at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College on September 1 and remains on view until December 9, 2012.
On “Art of Change: New Directions from China,” which opened at the Hayward Gallery, London on September 7 and remains on view until December 8, 2012, and “Everything Was Moving: Photography from the ’60s and ’70s,” which opened at the Barbican Art Gallery, London September 13, 2012 and remains on view until January 13, 2013.
On “Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard & the Emergence of Conceptual Art,” which opened at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth R. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 14, 2012 and remains on view until February 3, 2013.
On “To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts” at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery.
On Carmen, Trovatore, Othello, and recent performances by Daniil Trifonov, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and more.
On the nature of “reality” in the political arena.
On Urs Widmer and a trio of his novels.
On the life of Eugene Dominick Genovese, antebellum historian who passed away in September.
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