How to read Kafka: part II
by John M. Ellis
The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
The second in a two-part series on the writer who transformed our view of modern rationalism.
On the Canadian writer, occasioned by the publication of the second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow, by Zachary Leader.
On the world’s favorite ruin, occasioned by the publication of The Rome We Have Lost, by John Pemble.
On the religious background of the Bard.
On travels in Romania, past and present.
A retrospective look at the legacy of the First World War, which ended on November 11, 1918.
On Emily Brontë’s classic, occasioned by a new Oxford Companion to the works of the Brontë sisters.
On The Nap at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Bernhardt/Hamlet at the American Airlines Theatre, and On Beckett at the Irish Rep.
On “The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos,” at The Frick Collection in New York.
On “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963–2017” at The Met Breuer in New York.
On “George Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field,” at the Yale Center for British Art.
On opening nights at the New York Philharmonic; Samson and Delilah, La bohème, and Aida at the Metropolitan Opera; Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony; Jonas Kaufmann and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; and Daniel Hyde at Saint Thomas Church’s new organ.
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On the battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.
On Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates; Kolyma Stories, by Varlam Shalamov; The Kremlin Ball, by Curzio Malaparte, & To the Back of Beyond, by Peter Stamm.
A legendary critic looks back on his career.
On the godfather of postmodernist architecture, who died in September.
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The battle of Harvard Yard
by The Editors
On a legal battle over diversity and discrimination in the Ivy League.