Nov 09, 2023
Promised land, promised library
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On the new National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
On the new National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
On Jay-Z, ballet’s future & overpriced museums.
On the politicization of the American library.
A new podcast from the Executive Editor of The New Criterion.
On reading rooms, Stravinsky & Saxon England.
On book burning, Louis XIV & lectures on Dostoevsky.
On Gaetano Donizetti, book theft & bad poetry.
A review of Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature, by Stuart Kells.
On birrelling, Blessed John Henry Newman & the Bodleian.