Features May 2018
“The Idiot” savant
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On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
Topic: “Fiction”
Reconsiderations December 2017
A cycle of madness
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A new look at Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman.
Features May 2017
Doubling in Dublin
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On The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses by Vivien Igoe.
Apr 19, 2017
The Critic’s Notebook
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The recourse for revolution, all six cello suites of Bach, & more from the world of culture.
Features September 2016
Fear & loathing in Algeria
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On a novelization of the life and death of Communist dissident Fernand Iveton.
Reconsiderations September 2016
“The Backwash of War” at 100
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On the one-hundredth anniversary of the World War I novel.
Features September 2016
The goulash archipelago
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On Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy, and the character of Central Europe.
Jul 19, 2016
The Critic's Notebook
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Caravaggio’s legacy, J. P. Morgan’s hidden treasures, and more from the world of culture.
Features June 2016
Mixing memory & desire
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On Patrick Modiano’s deliberate obscurantism.
May 24, 2016
The Critic’s Notebook
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Our weekly recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.