Late Flowering
Ross King on Claude Monet and Water Lilies
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The great Impressionist kept his late masterpieces, the vast canvasses called the Water Lilies, out the public eye until the end of his life.
Vol 3, No 5 / October 10, 2017
Life During Wartime
By Elliot Ackerman
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Xenophon's classic remembrance of the Persian campaign holds disturbing lessons for modern America.
Vol 3, No 4 / July 12, 2017
Grandest Opera
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From Giuseppe Verdi's darkest year came a work of sublime power: Nabucco.
Vol 3, No 3 / May 3, 2017
La Vie en Rose: Picasso and Au Lapin Agile
By David Norman
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Essential to the development of modern painting were the cheap, slightly seedy cabarets of Paris, where artists in a creative ferment met, drank, smoked tobacco and opium, loved, fought, lost, sang, and in some cases died.
Vol 3, No 1 / January 3, 2017
Inner Life: Diego Velázquez and Las Meninas
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A renowned art critic and historian delves into the mysteries of a master's late canvas.
Vol 2, No 5 / November 2, 2016
Written in Stone
An interview with Bob Brier
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Egypt’s obelisks have endured for centuries. Here's how one left the granite quarries of Aswan and ended up on Fifth Avenue.
Vol 2, No 4 / August 29, 2016
Immortal Bird
By Guy Jennings
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A noted art historian explains the mythic and modern urges behind the iconic sculpture.
Vol 2, No 3 / June 27, 2016
Russian Beauty: On Anna Karenina
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What makes Tolstoy's novel so powerful? A translator explains.
Vol 2, No 2 / April 28, 2016
Lear's Shadow: Shakespeare and the Modern World
An Interview with James Shapiro
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One of the leading experts on the Bard explains why Lear is his greatest play -- and why you should see it staged.
Vol 2, No 1 / March 2, 2016
Impossible Dreams: Don Quixote at 400
By Ilan Stavans
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An critic makes the case for the novel as a guide to self-knowledge and an exploration of radical possibility.
Vol 1, No 5 / October 5, 2015
