May 10, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
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On memoirs by a Navy SEAL, Sean Scully, Eleanor Ray & more from the world of culture.
Topic: “Literature”
Features May 2021
On formal restlessness
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A discussion of poetic shape-shifting.
Apr 19, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
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On National Parks, New York’s rooftops, zoos, Mieczysław Weinberg & more from the world of culture.
Apr 13, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Nell Blaine, Dee Shapiro, Britain’s “Age of Decadence” & more from the world of culture.
Apr 09, 2021
Week in review
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On ancient music & Philip Roth’s KGB file.
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.
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.
Features May 2020
Robert Conquest’s open eyes
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On a man of many talents and his poetry.