Reconsiderations March 2020
A romantic anti-romantic
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On the overlooked works of Hugo Charteris.
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.
On De Kooning, New York City Ballet, Churchill’s letters to his mother & more from the world of culture.
On Pieter Bruegel, Harper Lee, Paglia’s provocations & more.
On Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason; The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths of Cumberland County, by Mason Ball; 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno; Article 35: A Novel, by Tanguy Viel; and Rock and Roll Is Life, by D. J. Taylor.