Lewis Carroll
Recent links of note:
Casualties of the College Culture Wars
Lapham’s Quarterly
A short review of those “offensive” mascots who lost their battles with the culture police. Though these mascots aren’t the only “casualties” of the so-called culture wars, they’re almost assuredly the most visible.
Bank Branch City
Nicole Gelinas, City Journal
Where did the corner store go? And why is there a Chase branch there? And on the next corner, too? That individually-owned small businesses are being priced out of Manhattan storefronts is no secret, but Gelinas explores the cause of the phenomenon, tracing it back to federal interest rates.
Go Ask Alice
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
The man we call Lewis Carroll was, in fact, a fastidious Oxford don by the name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Anthony Lane explores the way Carroll’s predilections, some of which might horrify the modern reader, influenced his most famous and madcap works, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
A Different Sort of Criminal Code
Stefan Beck, The Wall Street Journal
Frequent New Criterion contributor Stefan Beck praises the crime fiction of George V. Higgins, which features dialogue so evocative that it transcends mere crime fiction and stands as “a major achievement of drama in the strictest sense.”
From our pages:
Too cool in the capital
Bruce Cole
On the National Portrait Gallery’s strikingly foolish recent acquisitions.