May 2020
The culture of corona
On smoke, mirrors & glimpses of truth.
On smoke, mirrors & glimpses of truth.
On painful realities in the age of the coronavirus.
On a man of many talents and his poetry.
On The Conservative Sensibility, by George F. Will.
On Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History, by Andrew Roberts & Military Strategy: A Global History, by Jeremy Black.
Rereading André Gide’s Souvenirs de la cour d’assises.
On the career of the largely forgotten novelist.
On the theatrical life of James Agate.
On “Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings” at the Princeton University Art Museum.
A response to “How to Save America’s Biggest Museums—A Manifesto,” by Holland Cotter.
On “Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things” at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
On “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
On “Gerhard Richter: Painting After All” at the Met Breuer.
On the art of illness in Venice.
On an all-Bach recital by Daniil Trifonov; Beethoven trios with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos; and livestream concerts with the New York Festival of Song, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
On “science” as professed by non-scientists.
On Interior, by Thomas Clerc; The Sweet Indifference of the World, by Peter Stamm; the short-story collection Machines in the Head, by Anna Kavan; and Beyond the Sea, by Paul Lynch.
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
If you are a subscriber and you have not received an issue, or if an issue arrived damaged, please call 800-783-4903 or 973-627-5162 within 90 days of issue date for a replacement copy.