
‘A God Can Do It’
For Rilke, the artist’s task is to absorb the realm of things and thereby transform it into something rich and strange.
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
by Lesley Chamberlain
November 3, 2022 issue
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‘A God Can Do It’
For Rilke, the artist’s task is to absorb the realm of things and thereby transform it into something rich and strange.
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
by Lesley Chamberlain
November 3, 2022 issue
The Imaginative Imperative
Jed Perl’s Authority and Freedom is a defense of the autonomy of the arts against the stranglehold of relevance.
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts
by Jed Perl
April 21, 2022 issue
An Affair to Remember
Julia Parry has mined a trove of inherited letters to write her marvelous, gently elegiac book about the love affair between Elizabeth Bowen and Humphry House.
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen
by Julia Parry
September 23, 2021 issue
His Own Worst Enemy
In Van Gogh’s letters, his tone is consistently that of a man still aflame after a violent argument.
Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters
edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen, and Hans Luijten
Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him
by Mariella Guzzoni
May 13, 2021 issue
No One Gets Out Alive
C’est la Vie
by Pascal Garnier, translated from the French by Jane Aitken
Gallic Noir: Volume 1: The A26, How’s the Pain?, The Panda Theory
translated from the French by Melanie Florence, Emily Boyce, and Gallic Books
Gallic Noir: Volume 2: Boxes, The Front Seat Passenger, The Islanders, Moon in a Dead Eye
translated from the French by Melanie Florence, Jane Aitken, and Emily Boyce
Gallic Noir: Volume 3: The Eskimo Solution, Low Heights, Too Close to the Edge
translated from the French by Emily Boyce and Melanie Florence
April 9, 2020 issue
Of Terrorists, Tourists, and Robert Frost
The Unnamable Present
by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
September 26, 2019 issue
What Made the Old Boys Turn?
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
by Richard Davenport-Hines
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean
by Roland Philipps
March 7, 2019 issue
The Impossibility of Being Oscar
He had, throughout his life, talked away too much of his talent.
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years
by Nicholas Frankel
March 8, 2018 issue
Tender Is the Fall
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
by David S. Brown
November 9, 2017 issue
Ending at the Beginning
‘Kafka: The Early Years’ completes one of the great literary biographies of our time
Kafka: The Early Years
by Reiner Stach, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch
August 17, 2017 issue
The Strange Genius of the Master
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
by Philip Eade
February 9, 2017 issue
Philip Marlowe’s Revolution
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality
by Fredric Jameson
October 27, 2016 issue
Surrounded by Jew-Haters
Mihail Sebastian’s shocking novel ‘For Two Thousand Years’
For Two Thousand Years
by Mihail Sebastian, translated from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh
May 26, 2016 issue
A Quest for Clarity
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language
by Clive James
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