Department of none
by William H. Pritchard
On Harold Bloom’s new book on Shakespeare’s King Lear.
On Harold Bloom’s new book on Shakespeare’s King Lear.
On Philip Larkin’s poem of homecoming.
On Friedrich Schiller’s “Das Lied von der Glocke.”
On Marianne Moore’s life and poetry.
On Michael D. Hurley’s Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief.
On David Ferry’s new translation of The Aeneid.
On exile & on homecoming.
On Later Life at the Clurman Theatre, Amy and the Orphans at the Laura Pels Theatre & Party Face at Stage II.
On “Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle” at the Frick Collection.
On “The Holy Name—Art of the Gesù: Bernini and his Age” at the Fairfield University Art Museum.
On “M. C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
On “Charles I: King and Collector” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London & “Charles II: Art & Power” at the Queen’s Gallery, London.
On “Stephen Shore” at the Museum of Modern Art, “California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn | Wayne Thiebaud” at Acquavella Galleries, and “Sean Scully: Wall of Light” at Mnuchin Gallery.
On performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Tharaud, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Ying Fang, Nicolas Altstaedt and Fazil Say at Carnegie Hall; Emmanuel Pahud at the 92nd Street Y; and the New York Philharmonic.
On media foolishness.
On the Puritan aesthetic of #MeToo.
Notes & Comments
Fahrenheit 451 updated
by The Editors
On the Amy Wax controversy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Sermonizing on the Mount
by The Editors
On new faculty regulations at Mount Holyoke College.