The New York Review of Books

Two Kinds of Magic

August 18, 2011

Zarkana a show by Cirque du Soleil, written and directed by François Girard

A Magic Flute directed by Peter Brook

The Saints Take Broadway

July 14, 2011

The Book of Mormon a musical by Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone, directed by Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw

Bollocks on Broadway

June 9, 2011

Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth

Jazzing Up Hazlitt

July 2, 2009

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu

New Writings of William Hazlitt edited by Duncan Wu

Hazlitt in Love: A Fatal Attachment by Jon Cook

Forger’s Justice

March 12, 2009

How to Paint Like Titian

February 26, 2009

Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 18, 2008–January 4, 2009.

Victims of Vermeermania

November 6, 2008

The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez

The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick

In Samuel Palmer’s Garden

May 11, 2006

Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881: Vision and Landscape Catalog of the exhibition by William Vaughan, Elizabeth E. Barker, and Colin Harrison

The Art of the Dead

February 23, 2006

Italian Memorial Sculpture, 1820–1940: A Legacy of Love by Sandra Berresford, with introductory essays by James Stevens Curl and Fred S. Licht, additional articles by Francesca Bregoli and Franco Sborgi, and photographs by Robert W. Fichter and Robert Freidus

Yellow Tulips

August 11, 2005

Clare Was Right

June 23, 2005

The Cruel Carpenter

June 9, 2005

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short

A Snob in the Garden

March 10, 2005

A Rage for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Farrer, Gardener, Writer and Plant Collector by Nicola Shulman

The Photograph Man

January 13, 2005

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 Catalog of the exhibition by Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, and Sarah Greenough

Getting Clare Clear

October 7, 2004

John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate

“I Am”: The Selected Poetry of John Clare edited by Jonathan Bate

John Clare’s Genius

September 23, 2004

John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate

‘I Am’: The Selected Poetry of John Clare edited by Jonathan Bate

John Clare and the Folk Tradition by George Deacon

Vandalism and Enlightenment

August 12, 2004

Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century Catalog of the exhibition edited by Kim Sloan

Shakespeare, Stage or Page?

April 8, 2004

Shakespeare for All Time by Stanley Wells

Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist by Lukas Erne

The Age of Shakespeare by Frank Kermode

Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearean Tragedy by Fintan O'Toole

After Shakespeare: Writing Inspired by the World’s Greatest Author edited by John Gross

The Last English Style

December 18, 2003

Gothic: Art for England 1400–1547 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson

Blair in Trouble

October 23, 2003

Thirty Days: Tony Blair and the Test of History by Peter Stothard

The Hutton Inquiry: Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly

What’s in an Umlaut?

October 9, 2003

Robert Lowell: An Exchange

September 25, 2003

The Return of Robert Lowell

August 14, 2003

Robert Lowell: Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter

The Cambodia Obsession

July 3, 2003

The Gate by François Bizot, translated from the French by Euan Cameron, with a foreword by John le Carré

A New Victorian

May 29, 2003

Reviewery by Christopher Ricks

Selected Poems of James Henry edited by Christopher Ricks

You’ve Disappeared from the Screen

April 10, 2003

‘Don’t Take Our Raphael!’

March 27, 2003

Turgenev’s Banana

February 13, 2003

On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, with an introduction by Hermione Lee

In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet, edited and translated from the Frenchby Julian Barnes

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duel by John Donne, with a preface by Andrew Motion

A Memorial of the Last Days on Earth of Emily Gosse by Her Husband Philip Henry Gosse, FRS by Philip Henry Gosse

Don’t Take Our Raphael!

December 19, 2002

Making It by Making It

November 21, 2002

The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors by Eileen Harris

How Smelly Was the Palladian Villa?

October 24, 2002

The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Witold Rybczynski

Some Advice for Poets

September 26, 2002

Gardening with Attitude

August 15, 2002

We Made a Garden by Margery Fish,with a foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perényi, with an introduction by Allen Lacey

The Gardener’s Year by Karel Capek, with an introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner, with an introduction by Allan Gurganus

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter, illustrated by Childe Hassam, with an introduction by Tasha Tudor

The Woman Who Did

June 13, 2002

Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers by Lorna Sage

Shock Absorbed

May 23, 2002

Surrealist Love Poems edited by Mary Ann Caws

Surrealism: Desire Unbound Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jennifer Mundy

La Révolution Surréaliste Catalog of the exhibition by Werner Spies

The Poet’s Eye

April 11, 2002

George Romney, 1734–1802 Catalog of the exhibition by Alex Kidson

Those Delightful Regions of Imagination: Essays on George Romney edited by Alex Kidson

The Vapour Trail

March 28, 2002

Sketches in Clay

March 14, 2002

Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova Catalog of the exhibition edited by Bruce Boucher

Juan Muñoz Catalog of the exhibition edited by Neal Benezra, Olga M. Viso, Michael Brenson, and Paul Schimmel

Impressionist Still Life Catalog of the exhibitionby Eliza E. Rathbone and George T.M. Shackelford

Ghost Town

January 17, 2002

London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

From Florence to Las Vegas

December 20, 2001

Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo’s ‘Ginevra de’ Benci’ and Renaissance Portraits of Women Catalog of the exhibition edited by David Alan Brown

Aelbert Cuyp Catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

The Art of the Motorcycle Catalog of the exhibition published by the Guggenheim Las Vegas

Masterpieces and Master Collectors Catalog of the exhibition published by the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum

Beautiful Objects

November 29, 2001

Mermaids Explained by Christopher Reid, with a foreword by Charles Simic

Electric Light by Seamus Heaney

Expressions of the Age

September 20, 2001

Der Potsdamer Platz: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und der Untergang Preussens [Potsdamer Platz: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the Decline of Prussia] catalog of the exhibition edited by Katharina Henkel and Roland März

The Muse of Hartford

August 9, 2001

Magician of the Modern: Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America by Eugene R. Gaddis

‘Good Voices Are Rare’

July 5, 2001

The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden

A Friend, a Booke, and a Garden

May 17, 2001

Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens John Evelyn, edited by John E. Ingram

John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum” and European Gardening edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

Wounded by Un-Shrapnel

April 12, 2001

The Story of a Room

March 29, 2001

The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation:Vol. 1: Federico da Montefeltro’s Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo Olga Raggio

The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation: Vol. 2: Italian Renaissance Intarsia and the Conservation of the Gubbio Studiolo Antoine M. Wilmering

The Heroes of Kwangju

February 22, 2001

Kwangju Diary: Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age by Lee Jai-eui, translated from the Korean by Kap Su Seol and Nick Mamatas

The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea’s Tiananmen edited by Henry Scott-Stokesand Lee Jai-eui, with a foreword by President Kim Dae-jung

The Exhibition Follies

December 21, 2000

The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Museum by Francis Haskell

The Master Builders

October 5, 2000

Wren’s “Tracts” on Architecture and Other Writings by Lydia M. Soo

The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Jeffery

Inigo Jones by John Summerson, by Sir Howard Colvin

Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730 edited by Christopher Ridgway, edited by Robert Williams

Hawksmoor’s London Churches: Architecture and Theology by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

London’s New Left Bank

July 20, 2000

Tate Modern: The Handbook edited by Iwona Blazwick, by Simon Wilson

Representing Britain 1500-2000: 100 Works from Tate Collections by Martin Myrone

Separate Beds

June 15, 2000

Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn

Auden at Home

April 27, 2000

Collected Poems by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson

The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 edited by Edward Mendelson

About the House by W.H. Auden

Auden’s Enchantment

April 13, 2000

Later Auden by Edward Mendelson

The Dyer’s Hand by W.H. Auden

The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson

W.H. Auden: A Commentary by John Fuller

Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, 1926-1938 by W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson

The Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen, edited by Nicholas Jenkins

Auden’s Shakespeare

March 23, 2000

Free Spirit

February 24, 2000

Daumier, 1808-1879 1999; the Grand Palais, Paris, October 5, 1999-January 3, 2000; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 19-May 14, 2000. byan exhibition at the National Gallery, Ottawa, June 11-September 6, Catalog of the exhibition by Henri Loyrette, by Michael Pantazzi

Daumier: Le Cabinet des dessins by Judith Wechsler

Looking at a Snowdrop

January 20, 2000

A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden by Joe Eck, by Wayne Winterrowd

Annuals and Biennials by Roger Phillips, by Martyn Rix

The Genus Galanthus by Aaron P. Davis, illustrated by Christabel King

My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid, illustrated by Jill Fox

My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love edited by Jamaica Kincaid

The Explorer’s Garden: Rare and Unusual Perennials by Daniel J. Hinckley

Small Books of Great Gardens: Alhambra: A Moorish Paradise Enchantment, each volume, 79 photographs by Claire de Virieu, text by Gabrielle van Zuylen, by Gilles de Brissac, by Pierre Bergé, by Madison Cox, by Lauro Marchetti, by Esrne Howard

Giving Offense

December 16, 1999

Clemente 1999-January 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 8,, Catalog of the exhibition by Lisa Dennison

Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection 9, 2000. an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 2, 1999-January, Catalog of the exhibition by Norman Rosenthal, by Richard Shone, by Martin Maloney, by Brooks Adams, by Lisa Jardine

Saul Steinberg: Drawing into Being 1-October 30, 1999. an exhibition at the PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, October, Catalog of the exhibition by Bernice Rose, by Arne Glimcher

Dutch Treat

November 18, 1999

Degas’ Birds

November 4, 1999

Lost Treasures

October 21, 1999

From Pigalle to Préault: Neoclassicism and the Sublime in French Sculpture, 1760-1840 by Alison West

Degas in New Orleans

July 15, 1999

Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, May 1-August 29, 1999., Catalog of the exhibition by Gail Feigenbaum, by Jean Sutherland Boggs

The Zincsmith of Genius

May 20, 1999

Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch 1999; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 23-August 22, 1999; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 5, 1999-January 2, 2000. an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, January 27-April 25, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary Tinterow, by Philip Conisbee

Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres’s Images of Women by Aileen Ribeiro

Ingres by Georges Vigne

An Ardor for Armor

April 22, 1999

Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries 1998-January 17, 1999. an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 8,, Catalog of the exhibition by Stuart W. Pyhrr, by José-A. Godoy

Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art by Stephen N. Fliegel

Arms and Armor in The Art Institute of Chicago by Walter J. Karcheski Jr.

Sheridan the Revolutionary

February 4, 1999

A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Fintan O'Toole

Through the Looking-Glass

December 17, 1998

On Reflection 16-December 13, 1998. by Jonathan Miller. catalog of an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, September

Grand Illusions

December 3, 1998

New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, September 12, 1998-January 4, 1999, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 26-April 18, 1999. an exhibition traveling from Canberra and Melbourne to the Wadsworth, Catalog of the exhibition by Elizabeth Johns, by Andrew Sayers, by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, with Amy Ellis

Thomas Moran catalog of the traveling exhibition, edited by Nancy K. Anderson, with contributions from Thomas P. Bruhn, by Joni L. Kinsey, by Anne Morand

Leonardo’s Nephew

November 19, 1998

Men, Women & Beasts

October 22, 1998

D.H. Lawrence The Cambridge Biography: The Early Years 1885-1912 by John Worthen

Triumph to Exile 1912-1922 (Volu by Mark Kinkead-Weekes

The Dying Game 1922-1930 by David Ellis

Birds, Beasts and Flowers! 1923) by D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence: The Complete Poems edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, by Warren Roberts

A Room of One’s Own

August 13, 1998

The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy by Dora Thornton

Keats the Radical

May 14, 1998

John Keats and the Culture of Dissent by Nicholas Roe

Keats: A Biography by Andrew Motion

How Great Art Was Made

April 23, 1998

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, opened February 28, 1998 an installation from the permanent collection at the Fogg Art

Bernini’s Rome: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg 1998; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 16-August 2, 1998 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, February 28-May 3,

From the Sculptor’s Hand: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage Museum catalog of the Chicago exhibition organized by Ian Wardropper

Bernini: Genius of the Baroque by Charles Avery, special photography by David Finn

Bernini’s Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace: Architecture, Sculpture, and Ritual by T.A. Marder

Italian Baroque Sculpture by Bruce Boucher

A Family Romance

March 5, 1998

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

Verrocchio: The New Cicerone

February 19, 1998

Object Lessons

January 15, 1998

A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1997-January 18, 1998. Following its presentation in Baltimore, A Grand Design will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (February 25-May 17, 1998); the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (J an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 12,, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Malcolm Baker, by Brenda Richardson

Photography: An Independent Art: Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996 by Mark Haworth-Booth

A Nice German Lady

December 4, 1997

The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II by Ben Pimlott

The Royals by Kitty Kelley

The Voracious Eye

November 6, 1997

Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, September 19, 1997-January 7, 1998. Catalog of the exhibition by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson.

Going Half the Way

October 23, 1997

O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane edited by Langdon Hammer, by Brom Weber

Seurat and the Sewers

September 25, 1997

Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration of Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party 21, 1996- February 9, 1997. exhibition at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., September, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Eliza E. Rathbone, by Katherine Rothkopf, by Richard R. Brettell, by Charles S. Moffett

Seurat and the Bathers exhibition at the National Gallery, London, July 2-September 28, 1997., Catalog of the exhibition by John Leighton, by Richard Thompson

Seurat and the Avant-Garde by Paul Smith

The Mummy’s Secret

July 17, 1997

Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits From Ancient Egypt Paul Roberts and John Taylor. an exhibition at the British Museum, March 14-July 20, 1997.. Catalog of the exhibition by Susan Walker and Morris Bierbrier, with

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt by Euphrosyne Doxiadis

Portraits and Masks: Burial Customs in Roman Egypt edited by Morris Bierbrier

The Self-Made Man

June 12, 1997

Lady Lazarus

May 29, 1997

The Many Arts of Elizabeth Bishop

May 15, 1997

Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by William Benton

Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell by David Kalstone, edited by Robert Hemenway, afterword by James Merrill

One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux

Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier

Becoming Marianne Moore

April 24, 1997

Who Was Thomas Jones?

March 6, 1997

In The Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting 26-September 2, 1996; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 11, 1996-January 12, 1997; and the St. Louis Art Museum, February 21-May 18, 1997 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May

Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical Landscape Tradition by Peter Galassi

In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting catalog of the exhibition, by Philip Conisbee, by Sarah Faunce, by Jeremy Strick, with guest curator Peter Galassi

Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography catalog of the exhibition, by Peter Galassi

Becoming Picasso

February 6, 1997

A Life of Picasso: Volume II, 1907-1917 by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

On Drawing: An Exchange

January 9, 1997

A Banner With a Strange Device

December 19, 1996

Jasper Johns: A Retrospective 1996-January 21, 1997. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York October 20,. Catalog of the exhibition, by Kirk Varnedoe, with an essay by Roberta Bernstein

Degas in Chicago

October 17, 1996

Degas: Beyond Impressionism The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1996–January 5, 1997. Press exhibition at the National Gallery, London, May 22–August 26, 1996;, Catalog of the exhibition by Richard Kendall

Degas in the Evening

October 3, 1996

Degas as a Collector exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through August 26, 1996.. Catalog of the exhibition, by Ann Dumas

Degas: Beyond Impressionism The Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 1996-January 5, 1997. exhibition at the National Gallery, London, through August 26, 1996;. Catalog of the exhibition, by Richard Kendall

The Best of Both Worlds

August 8, 1996

Pisanello the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, September 7—December 9, 1996 an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, May 6—August 5, 1996, and at

Pisanello: le peintre aux sept vertus catalog of the exhibition, edited by Dominique Cordellier

Not the Black and Tans

August 8, 1996

The Orpheus of Ulster

July 11, 1996

Goodbye to All That

June 20, 1996

The Best Show in London

May 23, 1996

The Secrets of Maillol

May 9, 1996

Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol 59-61 Rue de Grenelle, Paris (inaugurated January 1995). Catalog of the museum

Aristide Maillol an exhibition at the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, January 14–May 5, 1996; continuing on to Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, May 15–September 22; Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, October 6–January 13, 1997; and Stadtische Kunsthalle, Ma edited by Ursel Berger, edited by Jörg Zutter

Aristide Maillol by Bertrand Lorquin

The Cherry Orchard Has to Come Down

April 4, 1996

Peter Brook’s Way

March 21, 1996

Qui Est Là directed by Peter Brook. at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris

On the Frontier

February 29, 1996

Atlantis by Mark Doty

My Alexandria by Mark Doty

Bethlehem in Broad Daylight by Mark Doty

Turtle, Swan by Mark Doty

A Short History of Anti-Hamitism

February 15, 1996

On Statues

February 1, 1996

Subversives

January 11, 1996

Berlin-Moscow 1900-1950 1995-January 7, 1996; and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 1-July 1, 1996 An exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, September 3,, Catalog of the exhibition by Irina Antonova, by Jörn Merkert

Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators 1930-45 1995-January 21, 1996, continuing on to Barcelona, February 26-May 6, 1996, and Berlin, June 7-August 20, 1996 An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 26,, Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades, by Tim Benton, by David Elliott, by Iain Boyd Whyte

Von Allen Seiten Schön [Beautiful from All Sides] Museum, Berlin, October 31, 1995-January 28, 1996 An exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes at the Altes, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Volker Krahn

A Lesson from Michelangelo

March 23, 1995

The Other Pope

December 22, 1994

The Disease of All Diseases

December 1, 1994

Hinterhof

May 12, 1994

A Death in London

March 24, 1994

For Andrew Wood

December 16, 1993

War in the Garden

June 24, 1993

Some Mistakes People Make About Poetry

March 25, 1993

Private Lives

March 4, 1993

Cut-Throat Christ Or the New Ballad of the Dosi

October 22, 1992

From the Coffee Shop

September 24, 1992

Cory Lives!

July 16, 1992

Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie

March 28, 1991

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Ethiopia: Victors and Victims

November 7, 1985

Notes from the Drought

October 24, 1985

Aimez-Vous Brecht?

March 15, 1984

Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett

Brecht: A Biography by Ronald Hayman

Two Kinds of Magic at Radio City & Lincoln Center

July 18, 2011

'The Book of Mormon': No Offense

June 11, 2011

A Heavy Vase of Irony, Broken Over Our Heads

May 13, 2011