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Carmine Starnino on artificial intelligence and creativity. | Continue reading
William Logan on the correspondence of the twentieth-century American poet. | Continue reading
Brooke Allen on “Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows” by Arthur Lubow. | Continue reading
Robert D. Kaplan on two great twentieth-century poets. | Continue reading
Peter Pennoyer on Czech Cubist architecture. | Continue reading
Jay Nordlinger on the late Broadway composer (1930–2021). | Continue reading
Timothy Jacobson on the Rock of Gibraltar. | Continue reading
Gerald Frost on George Orwell in Spain. | Continue reading
James Panero on Izaak Walton’s “The Compleat Angler.” | Continue reading
Adam Kirsch on deriving pleasure from poetry. | Continue reading
Amy L. Wax reviews “The Cult of Smart,” by Fredrik deBoer. | Continue reading
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Marco Grassi on art not made with hands. | Continue reading
Anthony Daniels on revisiting the works of the British mystery writer. | Continue reading
Jacob Howland on the legacy of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal dystopian novel. | Continue reading
Thomas White on the Metropolitan Opera’s Children’s Chorus. | Continue reading
Kyle Smith on the fame of George Bernard Shaw. | Continue reading
James Hankins on Raphael’s brief turn as an architect. | Continue reading
On painful realities in the age of the coronavirus. | Continue reading
Adam Kirsch on T. S. Eliot and the role of the poet-critic. | Continue reading
On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | Continue reading
James F. Penrose on A New World Begins by Jeremy D. Popkin, Crois ou meurs by Claude Quétel, and Le Tribunal révolutionnaire by Antoine Boulant. | Continue reading
John Simon on Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. | Continue reading
James Panero on American architectural style. | Continue reading
Stephen Schmalhofer on the life of Clarence Whittlesey Mendell. | Continue reading
James Hankins on “Léonard de Vinci” at the Louvre. | Continue reading
William Logan on “The Truth about Magic” by Atticus, “Feel Free” by Nick Laird, “Arias” by Sharon Olds, “Song of Songs: A Poem” by Sylvie Baumgartel, “Frolic and Detour” by Paul Muldoon & “Terminator: Poems, 2008–2018” by Richard Kenney. | Continue reading
Benjamin Riley on “Dogs in Art” by Susie Green. | Continue reading
Jacob Howland on the depredations of infinity. | Continue reading
Gary Saul Morson on the practice behind the theory of Marxism-Leninism. | Continue reading
On excavating the old “offenses” of Roger Scruton. | Continue reading
Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet virtue of cruelty. | Continue reading
A review of “The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, ‘Stoner,’ and the Writing Life,” by Charles J. Shields. | Continue reading
A review of “Going to the Wars: A Journey in Various Directions” and “A Dinner of Herbs,” by John Verney. | Continue reading
A review of “Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature,” by Stuart Kells. | Continue reading
Jeffrey Meyers on the subject of gambling in canonical Russian literature. | Continue reading
John M. Ellis on the first in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism. | Continue reading
Jacob Howland on the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the great anti-Soviet novel Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. | Continue reading
Marc M. Arkin on the making of an American enigma, occasioned by a new biography of his early life. | Continue reading
Dominic Green on Evelyn Waugh’s military service. | Continue reading
Eric Gibson on “Giacometti” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & “Alberto Giacometti: A Biography” by Catherine Grenier. | Continue reading
David Pryce-Jones on the life and legacy of the fiery Scottish novelist. | Continue reading
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Clive Aslet on the state and prospect of classical architecture. | Continue reading
Anthony Daniels on Cumberland Clark, the bard of Bournemouth. | Continue reading
Gary Saul Morson on On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Idiot.” | Continue reading