Robin Lane Fox | The New York Review of Books

A Difference Over Augustine

March 10, 2016 issue

The Floral Kingdom in the Bronx

Botanical gardens, like film stars, have survived by reinventing themselves.

Flora Illustrata: A Celebration of Botanical Masterworks

an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, November 15, 2014–February 22, 2015

Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

edited by Susan M. Fraser and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers

January 8, 2015 issue

Among the Plant Hunters

Though today there are fewer botanists than in centuries past, there are more botanical artists than ever before.

September 23, 2014

The Gardens of Their Dreams

Wishful thinking is entwined with gardening. We plant, we dream, we fantasize about flowers, and we see behind them the people who once gave them to us or first showed us their beauty. Reality then intervenes.

Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens and the Women Who Designed Them

an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, May 17–September 7, 2014

The Mythology of Plants: Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome

by Annette Giesecke

Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology

edited by Christina Hardyment

The Gardens of the British Working Class

by Margaret Willes

The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World’s Greatest Botanical Explorers

by Carolyn Fry

The Golden Age of Botanical Art

by Martyn Rix

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September 25, 2014 issue

How It Grew

The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000

by Peter Brown

April 24, 1997 issue