Dispatch
“The road to the Appian Way,” by Jay Nordlinger
Last Saturday night, the New York Philharmonic played a concert splashed with color. It began with a…
The Critic’s Notebook
Fiction: Portrait of Jane Austen, from A Memoir of Jane Austen by J. E. Austen-Leigh (1870). “Paper…
“Parsifal” by the wayside
“So slow,” remarked an audience member as he exited the hall after Act I of Matthew Ozawa’s fanciful…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Nonfiction: Italy: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists, by Nick Trend (Thames & Hudson): …
On & off the wall
“Building Models: The Shape of Painting” is about a kind of painting that has for decades been…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “An eerie Renaissance masterpiece, fresh from a four-year restoration…
Elusive Eleanor
In the classic historical drama The Lion in Winter (1968), King Henry II, played by Peter O’Toole,…
The curious case of E. T. A. Hoffmann
Much about E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) can be discerned from his name. Born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm…
Finland’s lighthouse
The Petit Palais has a history of exhibiting Scandinavian masters whose works are barely known…
The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors
Nonfiction: Looking After Your Books, by Francesca Galligan (Bodleian Library Publishing): Whether…
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