Apr 09, 2021
Week in review
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On ancient music & Philip Roth’s KGB file.
On ancient music & Philip Roth’s KGB file.
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.
On men and monsters in the great Anglo-Saxon epic.
On Watteau and seditious libel.
On the Soane, Roger Fry, bird literature & more from the world of culture.
Rereading André Gide’s Souvenirs de la cour d’assises.
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.
On the career of the largely forgotten novelist.
On a man of many talents and his poetry.
On J. K. Huysmans, Elizabeth Bishop & artists and their studios.