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This essay is for Mohara Gill, because she gave me the idea. Some years ago, critics worried that the novel was dying. The first novel, Tale of the...
Visual art is the the artistic medium most directly associated with money. A successful writer or composer may become financially successful. And a...
Sometimes one’s best ideas are simple. At the end of the twentieth century, I spent the academic year in residence as a Getty Scholar in Los...
For H.B. Just now I see in the news that a previously little known, rarely seen portrait by Caravaggio has reappeared in Italy. Because I am very...
I am in my Pittsburgh study looking at an inexpensive print by Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), the French born artist who lived and worked in London....
Now and then, but this is rare, one has a perfect friendship, a loving harmonious experience rare enough to deserve a written record. I had such a...
Consider a short list of the defining qualities, the necessary and sufficient conditions of European modernism, in contrast or opposition to old...