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“Four or five tenors is barely enough”
On the world tenor shortage, the plight of the paperback, a new source for Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” Mark Twain’s religion, and more!
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“Infinite Jest” at 30, saint Wittgenstein, in praise of amanuenses, what spy fiction does, and more.
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Opera Wars
Also: Jack Kerouac’s 121-foot-long scroll, poet voice, a new translation of “The Lives of the Caesars,” revisiting the death of Trotsky, and more.
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The problem with contemporary publishing, Lionel Shriver’s new novel, the works of Leonardo Sciascia, in praise of Richard F. Burton, a “magnificent…
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Italy’s Abandoned Arts Town
Also: Carthage reconsidered, in praise of the family photo album, a history of pedantry, in praise of a Brutalist church, and more.
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“A Purely Mediated Experience”
Also: A history of Britain, when London was enchanting, a new history of the Wars of the Roses, Shakespearean insanity, and more.
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Margaret C. Anderson’s life and work, the end of the New Statesman literary set, George Templeton Strong’s diaries, Paul McCartney’s photos, and more.
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Uncanny, Pitch-Perfect Awfulness
John Wilson’s year in fiction.
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