“Demons” at 150
by Jacob Howland
On Dostoevsky’s prophetic tale of societal decay.
On Dostoevsky’s prophetic tale of societal decay.
On Frank Richards’s Billy Bunter series.
On French aristocrats at the twilight of the ancien régime.
On Matthew Arnold & Arthur Hugh Clough.
On some midcentury bestsellers.
On Alexander Carmichael’s compendium of Celtic Christianity.
On a new biography of the playwright Tom Stoppard.
On “Salman Toor: How Will I Know,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
On “Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
On “Albers and Morandi: Never Finished” at David Zwirner, “Victor Pesce: Still Life” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, “Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings” & “Wolf Kahn: The Last Decade 2010–2020” at Miles McEnery Gallery, “Jill Nathanson: Light Phrase” at Berry Campbell, “Jane Freilicher: Parts of a World” at Kasmin Gallery, “Deborah Brown: Things As They Are” at Anna Zorina Gallery, “Tworkov: Towards Nirvana / Works from the 70s” at Van Doren Waxter & “Sharon Butler: Morning in America” at Theodore:Art.
On recent livestreams by Grigory Sokolov, Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczała, the Britten Sinfonia & Alexander Malofeev.
On calls for a “Reality Czar.”
On the art collector and gallery owner.
Notes & Comments
Canceling classics
by The Editors
On demolishing classical studies in the pursuit of “reparative intellectual justice.”
French rejection
by The Editors
A Gallic stand against illiberal ideology.