May 16, 2020
Week in review
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On Paul Valéry, The Futurist Cookbook & the great coronavirus novel of 2020.
On Paul Valéry, The Futurist Cookbook & the great coronavirus novel of 2020.
On brickwork, Bryant Park, French statesmen & more from the world of culture.
On Churchill, the Louvre, many, many menus & more from the world of culture.
On Western civilization, the rise of Shakespeare & the fall of the novel.
A review of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, by Lindsay M. Chervinsky.
On Roger Fry and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On painful realities in the age of the coronavirus.
On a man of many talents and his poetry.
On The Conservative Sensibility, by George F. Will.
On Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History, by Andrew Roberts & Military Strategy: A Global History, by Jeremy Black.