May 27, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Raphael, Anton Chekhov, The Burlington Magazine & more from the world of culture.
On Raphael, Anton Chekhov, The Burlington Magazine & more from the world of culture.
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 the overlooked works of Hugo Charteris.
Where Russia meets the American South.
On Ulysses, figurative art, the Temple of Hera at Olympa & more from the world of culture.
On the beloved brainchild of George MacDonald Fraser.
On The Ditch by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett; Family Record by Patrick Modiano, translated by Mark Polizzotti; Metropolitan Stories: A Novel by Christine Coulson; and Girl: A Novel by Edna O’Brien.
On East End art, music at St. Paul’s, the latest campus novel & more from the world of culture.
On Shakespeare’s late plays, autofiction, Notre-Dame redux & more.