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Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Archeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Basilica Designed by Vitruvius: ‘The…
Play it again, Igor
Sometime before Christmas, I saw that Igor Levit would be playing a recital in Carnegie Hall on…
“A quiet literary life,” by David Platzer
Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor…
A requiem for Europe
I made the decision to move to Hungary just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, fully intending to…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Art: A self-portrait of the artist Richard Pousette-Dart (1985). “Richard Pousette-Dart: Geometry of…
The angelic bear
When the conductor took the stage at David Geffen Hall on Friday afternoon, the man in front of me…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Huge Roman villa found under popular park dubbed town’s ‘Pompeii’”Steffan…
“The eclectic Isabel Leonard,” by Jay Nordlinger
When Isabel Leonard took the stage at Carnegie Hall last night, a man near me said, “Wow.” He drew…
“From the ‘Meditations’ of Marcus Aurelius.”
Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus…
Salvaging Salieri
On January 3, 1799, seven years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s death from natural causes, Antonio…
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