Letter from Birmingham June 2022
A day out
by
On a trip to Birmingham.
On a trip to Birmingham.
On the choices facing the West.
On belief, Wayne Thiebaud, The Barber of Seville, A Midsummer Night’s Dream & more from the world of culture.
On Elizabeth Stuart & ancient souvenirs.
On Susan Jaffe, the Duke of Wellington & deaccessioning artwork.
On Parisian architecture, the Monuments Men, Bronislava Nijinska, Nabokov & more from the world of culture.
On Leo Strauss, nineteenth-century photography, Bach & more from the world of culture.
On private libraries, Frederick Morgan, the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens & more.
On the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory.
On the growing class of “intellectuals.”