Peter Brooks is the author of Henry James Goes to Paris, Realist Vision, Troubling Confessions, Reading for the Plot, The Melodramatic Imagination, and a number of other books, including the historical novel World Elsewhere. He taught for many years at Yale, where he was the Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, and currently is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton.
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Behind the Iron Mask
May 23, 2013
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
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Our Universities: How Bad? How Good?
March 24, 2011
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It
by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities
by Mark C. Taylor
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
by Martha C. Nussbaum
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In the Hidden Paris Underground
January 13, 2011
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
By Robert Darnton
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Napoleon’s Eye
November 19, 2009
Dominique-Vivant Denon: L’oeil de Napoléon
an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1999–January 17, 2000
No Tomorrow
by Vivant Denon, translated from the French by Lydia Davis, and with an introduction by Peter Brooks
Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris
by Andrew McClellan
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Ford’s Better Idea
January 25, 1973
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Ford’s Better Idea
January 25, 1973
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Community of Scholars?
November 7, 1968
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Community of Scholars?
November 7, 1968
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From Egypt to Paris: An Artist Prized for His Travel Sketches
November 6, 2009
Dominique-Vivant Denon, the subject of my piece in the November 19, 2009 issue of the New York Review of Books, is known above all as the first Director of the Louvre—which, under his guidance, became the first encyclopedic public museum. But he was also an artist prized for his travel sketches and engravings. Since I could only touch on this aspect of his career briefly in my piece, I offer here some further notes and selections from his work.