Archive - Prufrock

June 2025

“All the Strange and Peculiar Circumstances of the Crime Were Taken into Consideration”

Also: Against “selected poems,” at the Atelier Devauchelle in Paris, revisiting Thomas Merton’s affair, in praise of Terence Rattigan, and more.

Jun 30 •

The life and art of 19th-century Philadelphia, the history in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Red Wheel,” Erik Satie’s “lost” works, Picturesque Japan…

Jun 28 •

"A Sign of Some Deeper Malady"

Also: David Foster Wallace’s letters, Scottish tea, ghazals in English, Cormac McCarthy’s anti-Catholicism, and more.

Jun 25 •

Living next to Water

Also: Reconstructing Roman frescos, against mediocre classics, recreating “Egyptian blue,” Victorian flowers, and more.

Jun 23 •

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

Jun 21 •

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 •

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