Fiction chronicle November 2020
The slow & the dead & other authors
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A review of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, The Dominant Animal and Aug 9—Fog by Kathryn Scanlan & The Caretaker by Doon Arbus.
Topic: “Literature”
Features June 2020
“Beowulf” & history
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On men and monsters in the great Anglo-Saxon epic.
Apr 24, 2020
Week in review
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On Watteau and seditious libel.
Apr 21, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On the Soane, Roger Fry, bird literature & more from the world of culture.
Fiction chronicle May 2020
Myself, ourselves, others
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On Interior, by Thomas Clerc; The Sweet Indifference of the World, by Peter Stamm; the short-story collection Machines in the Head, by Anna Kavan; and Beyond the Sea, by Paul Lynch.
Reconsiderations May 2020
Anyone for Peter De Vries?
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On the career of the largely forgotten novelist.
Reflections May 2020
Gide’s judgment
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Rereading André Gide’s Souvenirs de la cour d’assises.
Features May 2020
Robert Conquest’s open eyes
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On a man of many talents and his poetry.
Mar 27, 2020
Week in review
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On J. K. Huysmans, Elizabeth Bishop & artists and their studios.
Mar 26, 2020
Pocket patriot
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On Alexander Woollcott at war.