Category: Book Review

A Preference for the Primitive: Gombrich’s Legacy

Toscanini, Then and Now

Stories and Lines

Many Voices

Saving the Sumatran Rhino

Writing About Music

Stendhal’s Children

To Find the Man in Dostoevsky

Once Is Not Enough: Rereading and Remembering

Notes of Quaint Reader

America the Innocent

More than the Sum of His Parts: The Enigma of Winston Churchill

Scripting the Environment

Responsibilites

Reverence

Is Wagner Divine?

TLS Lives

The Secret Service: Mark Jarman’s Quest for a Poetics

O Lost!

Iris Murdoch: The Imagined Life

Family Fictions

Religious Atheist: The Case of Allen Tate

Vanity Fair and Vexation of Spirit

Defoe and Sterne

Character

A Drop of Bitterness: Andersen’s Fairy Tales

In Praise of Artifice

Boswell’s Turn

The Law of Desire

Reading A. S. Byatt Reading

Borne Ceaselessly into the Past

The Arabian Nights of Gertrude Bell

Ambiguous Knowledge, or Did Curiosity Kill the Cat?

A Sea of Troubles

The Perennial Value of the Slave Narrative

The Oscar Wilde Industry

Ghosts, Shadow Patterns and the Fiction of Penelope Fitzgerald

Not Responsible for Items Forgotten or Lost

Misandry in the Classroom

They Also Serve

Simpson’s Villon

Poetry Chronicle

Mr. Barzun and the Decky-Dance

A Crucifix for Dracula: Wendell Berry Meets Edward O. Wilson

Modern American Poetry and the Hopper of Civilization

What Is Truth?

Communities Perhaps

Flint and Iron

Thrush Music, Audubon, and the Birds of America

Maximalist Fiction