Notebook May 2020
Samuel Pepys’s merry plague-time
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How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
Topic: “London”
Nov 07, 2019
Marital woes in London
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On a new production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House.
Apr 18, 2019
Week in review
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On rebuilding Notre Dame, selling Salvator Mundi, Shakespeare’s parish & more.
Mar 22, 2019
Week in review
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On the Sacklers in London, Altering Scripture, Jay Nordlinger on the arts & more.
Books January 2019
The man behind “Messiah”
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Art January 2019
The collector’s omnivorous taste
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On Richard Wallace and the Wallace Collection.
Nov 02, 2018
Week in review
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On a “no” for the Nobel, the price of armistice, a new V&A & more.
Jul 02, 2018
Holding the mirror up to Hamlet
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On Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
Jun 26, 2018
Rodin takes on the Parthenon
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On “Rodin and the art of ancient Greece” at the British Museum.
Jun 12, 2018
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Modernists and mavericks, “Marianne and Walt” & more from the world of culture.