Notes & Comments December 2019
Peter Collier, 1939–2019
On the life and work of Peter Collier.
Topic: “Literature”
Books December 2019
Book it
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Reconsiderations November 2019
Journal of a conflicted man
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On the last words of W. N. P. Barbellion.
Reconsiderations October 2019
Sachie Sitwell’s museum of curiosities
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On the youngest of the taste-making trio.
May 10, 2019
Week in review
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On a Vermeer revealed, opening the museum vaults, the Venice Biennale & more.
Fiction chronicle May 2019
Myths, legends & monsters
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On Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason; The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths of Cumberland County, by Mason Ball; 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno; Article 35: A Novel, by Tanguy Viel; and Rock and Roll Is Life, by D. J. Taylor.
Notebook May 2019
The last Victorian
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Highlights from a lifetime of reading.
Apr 05, 2019
Week in review
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On Ian Buruma, Bergman the novelist, Toulouse-Lautrec & more.
Reflections April 2019
Envy—the good kind
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On the virtues of the classic vice.
Reconsiderations April 2019
Martin Green’s treasure hunt
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Rereading Martin Green’s Children of the Sun.