Archive - Prufrock

Ocean Vuong’s “ridiculous” prose, revisiting the “merveilleux-scientifique” novel, the reception of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Radiohead’s “Hamlet,” and…

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Wednesday Links

Dorothy Sayers, pissed; the limits of Transcendentalism; on “bad bad books;” in praise of eating late, the influence of William Blake; and more.

Jun 18 •

Is It Possible to Write an Entertaining Account of Nice People at Political Parties?

Also: Advice to young writers, manifesto homes, saving the Lake District from misanthropic environmentalists, and more.

Jun 16 •

Remembering Brian Wilson, the life and work of Benvenuto Cellini, the problem with romantsy, the state of contemporary Ethiopian philosophy, and more.

Jun 14 •

Is This the First Caravaggio?

Also: Hollywood’s teen films, the lessons of “Northanger Abbey,” JSTOR at 30, Antonia Showering’s transcendent figures, and more.

Jun 11 •

Will the Elgin Marbles Return to Greece?

Also: Ian Fleming’s other writing, an ode to night workers, revisiting Saul Bellow’s “To Jerusalem and Back,” and more.

Jun 9 •

Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls, Los Angeles before freeways, the decline of the piano, revisiting, Nigel Slater’s “Toast,” Arthur Christopher Benson’s…

Jun 7 •

Stranger than Fiction

Also: Samuel Pepys’s diary at 200, a life of Paul Gauguin, the return of the campus novel, Michael Connelly’s new detective, and more.

Jun 4 •

May 2025

Computers and mystery, rethinking the Renaissance, right-wing art, the rise of Romantasy, Seamus Heaney’s very public life, and more.

May 31 •

The Task of the Critic

Also: A dumb argument about identity in “The Odyssey,” in praise of five Japanese novels, Jan van Kessel’s “Ark,” George Orwell on the island of Jura…

May 28 •

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre

Also: Jim Morrison’s stolen bust, David Mamet’s latest movie, Rome’s ruins, a collection of rare 20th-century guitars, and more.

May 26 •

“Chicago Sun-Times” Publishes an AI-Generated Summer Reading List

Almost all of the titles are fake. Also: Growing up in the cult of Twain, countryside walking, priestly crime fiction, Duccio di Buoninsegna’s wine, and…

May 21 •

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