What She Asks, She Obtains
by Stephen SchmalhoferThe Virgin's influence extends to American art. Continue Reading »
Stefan Zweig, European Man
by Joseph EpsteinThe Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig by stefan zweig translated by anthea bell pushkin, 384 pages, $30 The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by stefan zweig translated by anthea bell pushkin, 720 pages, $14.99 The World of Yesterday by stefan zweig translated by anthea bell . . . . Continue Reading »
Crimes in Concrete
by Theodore DalrympleMaking Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by james stevens curl oxford, 592 pages, $60 In a recent debate in Prospect magazine on the question of whether modern architecture has ruined British towns and cities, Professor James Stevens Curl, . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by Variousliberal politesse R. R. Reno’s point in “The Civility Trap” (March) is well-taken: Nobody on the wrong side of contemporary liberalism, either to its right or left, would likely disagree that the expectation of civility masks exercises in raw power. Manners aren’t simply politic, in other . . . . Continue Reading »
Les Murray, Dissident Poet
by David MasonLes Murray's work helped raise his nation's poetry to a level of global importance. Continue Reading »
Miyazaki's Reality
by Michael ToscanoMiyazakiworld: A Life in Art by susan napier yale, 344 pages, $30 Never-Ending Man, a documentary that recently enjoyed a limited release in the United States, shows an exchange between the animator Hayao Miyazaki, seventy-eight, and a group of young programmers from an artificial intelligence . . . . Continue Reading »
An Irish Dante
by Moriah SpecialeThe Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among the damned are Franz Kafka, Karl Marx, and—you guessed it—a certain . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelical Ruskin
by Peter J. LeithartCelebrations of Ruskin’s polymathic genius usually miss the role of Christianity in his outlook and writing. Continue Reading »
Art Rethought
by John WilsonNicholas Wolterstorff and Paul Willis both subvert the institution of high art. Continue Reading »
Geoffrey Hill, Prodigal
by Garrick DavisAmong poets writing in English during the last forty years, Geoffrey Hill was sometimes named the greatest one alive, but he was always named the most difficult one to read. He had come to live and teach in America in the 1980s, along with a brilliant group which included Paul Muldoon at . . . . Continue Reading »
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