How to read Kafka: part I
by John M. Ellis
The first in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
The first in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
On the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s great anti-Soviet novel Life and Fate.
On the making of an American enigma, occasioned by a new biography of his early life.
On Evelyn Waugh’s military service.
On the demise of a doomed political union.
On England’s most over-the-top composer and his new memoir, Unmasked.
On “Corot: Women” at the National Gallery of Art.
On Andrew and Jamie Wyeth at the Farnsworth Art Museum and “John Bisbee: American Steel,” “Tom Burckhardt: Studio Flood,” and “Jocelyn Lee: The Appearance of Things” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
On “Red Grooms: Handiwork, 1955–2018,” at Marlborough Contemporary, “Rackstraw Downes: Paintings & Drawings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery, “Graham Nickson: Cumulus, Monumental Trees and Transient Skies” at the New York Studio School, & the late Richard Timperio, gallerist at the legendary Sideshow in Williamsburg.
On performances at the Salzburg Festival, including the conductor Teodor Currentzis with musicAeterna, the violinist Albena Danailova with other members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the pianist Yuja Wang and the percussionist Martin Grubinger, the pianist Grigory Sokolov, the operas L’incoronazione di Poppea and Salome, and the conductor Herbert Blomstedt with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
On redefining truth and destroying political discourse.
On the Trinidad-born British writer, who died this August.
On the scientist, CO2 Coalition leader, and New Criterion supporter, who died this September.
Notes & Comments
The way we live now
by The Editors
On rewriting history and romanticizing evil on college campuses.