Archive - Prufrock

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Apr 20 •

The Reactionary Leonard Cohen

Also: Tobias Wolff on learning to write, Hemingway’s Michigan, Seamus Heaney’s letters, an 82-foot lizard fish, and more.

Apr 18 •

The First “First Things” Poetry Prize

Also: The glories of the OED, the people who hate Renoir, a silent rave in Canterbury Cathedral, and more.

Apr 16 •

The rise of the anonymous music star, stunning new frescos in Pompeii, W.S. Gilbert’s cutting wit, the literary manuscripts of the Bodleian, and more.

Apr 13 •

Revisiting Lance Armstrong’s First Tour Win

Also: A less competitive Scrabble, Glenn C. Loury’s frank autobiography, a life of Ian Fleming, a flood of bookazines, and more.

Apr 10 •

Klimt’s landscapes, Frederick Douglass’s productivity, the West’s last all black town, Jane Greer’s “whippy coherence,” and more.

Apr 6 •

Climate Change and Natural Disasters

Also: Looking for Dupree Bolton, the complex T.S. Eliot, the problem of screen time, against “misery lit,” and more.

Apr 4 •

"Ambitious, Delightful AI News Experiences" Just for U

Also: UNC’s stymied online education venture, toothless Stoicism, Robert Frost at 150, and more.

Apr 1 •

March 2024

Defending Michelangelo’s “David,” Victorian ghosts, the return of “Life,” drinking in Islamabad, and more.

Mar 30 •

Remembering Marjorie Perloff

Also: Toni Morrison’s rejection letters, Clarice Lispector in Washington, Himmelfarb as historian, and more.

Mar 27 •

Caravaggio’s last painting, lunching with Rabi, baseball books, in search of old rums, Christian Wiman and Marilynne Robinson talk about Genesis, and…

Mar 23 •

Wednesday Links

A new adaptation of “Master and Margarita,” a history of the Mafia, Garnett drops the AP, ancient Greeks in Rome, and more.

Mar 20 •

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