Topic: “Japan”

The vacant eye

On One Hundred Visions of War, by Julien Vocance, translated by Alfred Nicol.

On "Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Weekly recommendations from the editors of The New Criterion on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

On “Clouds in a Bag” at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center & “Inventing Utamaro” at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

A review of Silence by Shusaku Endo.

On the travels and evolving style of the South African poet.

On “Kamakura: Realism & Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan” at the Asia Society, New York, February 9–May 8, 2016.