Jul 18, 2018
Boris? He was good enough
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On a new production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera.
Topic: “Russia”
Jun 22, 2018
Week in review
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On Giacometti, Solzhenitsyn, club sandwich politics & more
Jun 08, 2018
Week in review
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On Irving Sandler, Isaiah Berlin, UVA library renovations & more.
Mar 23, 2018
Week in review
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On Cormac McCarthy, Kenneth Clark, “curate” & more.
Sep 12, 2017
The Critic’s Notebook
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On highland retreats, Parisian aesthetes & more from the world of culture.
Aug 22, 2017
The Critic’s Notebook
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On classical music streaming, Russian scheming & more from the world of culture.
Verse chronicle June 2017
Hither & yon
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On Commotion of the Birds by John Ashbery, Falling Awake by Alice Oswald, Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova, Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler & Fast by Jorie Graham.
Books June 2017
A Muscovite myth
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Mar 06, 2017
From St. Petersburg (not Florida) with love
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On a Russian orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Art March 2017
From Russia with love
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On “Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.