Archive - Prufrock

September 2025

The Work of Suzanne Duchamp

Also: The essential Newman, William Faulkner’s piano, Dante’s success, and more.

Sep 29 •

The “magazine scene,” Tarjei Vesaas’s novels, the exacting magic of film restoration, a new John Singer Sargent portrait, a new Raymond Chandler story…

Sep 27 •

Reading the Booker Shortlist

Also: Picasso’s poetry, in defense of peasantry, the return of an 11th-century pipe organ, the first review of Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket,” and…

Sep 24 •

The Return of B.F. Skinner

Also: London’s clubs, keeping kosher, John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, the rise of the Insta artist, and more.

Sep 22 •

The revolution in English bell-ringing, the accomplishment of Elmore Leonard, a life of Jean Baudrillard, in search of “Pearl,” and more.

Sep 20 •

C.S. Lewis and the Jews

Also: Pascal the satirist, the ethics of taste, the lives and work of James Schuyler and Dick Gallup, Man Ray as “Surrealist artist-inventor,” and more.

Sep 17 •

The life and work of Edna Ferber, Sylvia Plath’s prose, Oxford’s libraries, and more.

Sep 15 •

Arvo Pärt at 90, “Spinal Tap II,” the medieval moon, Daniel Day-Lewis returns, a Rubens rediscovered, and more.

Sep 13 •

Dan Brown’s “Weapons-Grade Bollocks”

Also: A history of shamanism, Rick Bass plays football, Charles Cooke visits Pigeon Forge, and more.

Sep 10 •

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