Features May 2018
“The Idiot” savant
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On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
A new look at Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman.
On The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses by Vivien Igoe.
The recourse for revolution, all six cello suites of Bach, & more from the world of culture.
On a novelization of the life and death of Communist dissident Fernand Iveton.
On the one-hundredth anniversary of the World War I novel.
On Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy, and the character of Central Europe.
Caravaggio’s legacy, J. P. Morgan’s hidden treasures, and more from the world of culture.
On Patrick Modiano’s deliberate obscurantism.
Our weekly recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.