May 10, 2019
Week in review
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On a Vermeer revealed, opening the museum vaults, the Venice Biennale & more.
Topic: “Literature”
Notebook May 2019
The last Victorian
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Highlights from a lifetime of reading.
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.
Apr 05, 2019
Week in review
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On Ian Buruma, Bergman the novelist, Toulouse-Lautrec & more.
Reconsiderations April 2019
Martin Green’s treasure hunt
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Rereading Martin Green’s Children of the Sun.
Books April 2019
Among the great & the good
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Reflections April 2019
Envy—the good kind
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On the virtues of the classic vice.
Mar 22, 2019
Week in review
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On the Sacklers in London, Altering Scripture, Jay Nordlinger on the arts & more.
Mar 15, 2019
Week in review
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On Hudson Yards, literature without criticism, the real St. Patrick & more.
Feb 27, 2019
The consolations of fantasy
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On “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” at The Morgan Library & Museum.