Links of interest from the past week:
Opera is not just our most expensive noise
Roger Scruton, Standpoint
The fraught friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx
Lee Siegel, The New Yorker
Stage fright: classical music’s dark secret
Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph
The lost beauty of book endpapers
Allison Meier, Hyperallergic
Brussels spleen
Richard Sieburth (translator), Harper’s Magazine
From our pages:
A bookman of the people
Henrik Bering