
Visions of Waste
The American Scene is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.
The American Scene
by Henry James, edited by Peter Collister
March 24, 2022 issue
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Peter Brooks is the author of Henry James Goes to Paris. His new book, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative, will be published in October. (March 2022)
Visions of Waste
The American Scene is Henry James’s indictment of what Americans had made of their land.
The American Scene
by Henry James, edited by Peter Collister
March 24, 2022 issue
The Story of the Story of the Story
The Storyteller Essays
by Walter Benjamin, edited and with an introduction by Samuel Titan and translated from the German by Tess Lewis
January 16, 2020 issue
Noble Memories
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768–1800
by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated from the French by Alex Andriesse, with an introduction by Anka Muhlstein
April 19, 2018 issue
Something Grander Than a Novel
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
by David Bellos
July 13, 2017 issue
Flaubert: The Tragic Historian
Flaubert
by Michel Winock, translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott
March 9, 2017 issue
The Strange Case of Paul de Man
Was the literary critic a Talented Mr. Ripley, leading a double life?
The Double Life of Paul de Man
by Evelyn Barish
April 3, 2014 issue
Behind the Iron Mask
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
May 23, 2013 issue
Our Universities: How Bad? How Good?
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
March 24, 2011 issue
In the Hidden Paris Underground
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
By Robert Darnton
January 13, 2011 issue
Napoleon’s Eye
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
November 19, 2009 issue
From Egypt to Paris: An Artist Prized for His Travel Sketches
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.
November 6, 2009
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