Sir Thomas Browne and The Tender Filaments of Life by Jeffrey Meyers Thomas Browne (1605-82), born in London the son of a silk merchant, was…
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Paul Klee: The Walking Line Jeffrey Meyers In the 1960s a clever advertisement said, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish…
John le Carré and Tom Stoppard: A Friendship Jeffrey Meyers John le Carré (whom I call LC), born in Poole, Dorset in 1931 and educated…
The Titans Jeffrey Meyers William Wallace. Michelangelo & Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius. Princeton UP, 2026, 198p, $35. 48 color plates, 49 black-and-white.…
Chaim Soutine: Tormented Artist Jeffrey Meyers Change and decay in all around I see. “Abide with Me” (1847) Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), the tenth of eleven…
Terribly Hush-Hush Review by Jeffrey Meyers Robert Verkaik. The Writer and the Traitor: Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. London: Headline Wellbeck, 365p,…
St. Matthew Passion by Jeffrey Meyers Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s St. Matthew Passion (Medford, MA.: Arrowsmith, 2024, 93p, $18 pb) is her first book since 2010. It’s…
Humbert’s Name in Lolita by Jeffrey Meyers Nomen est omen (the name is a clue) Young nymphets appeared before Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) in the photography…
Joyce’s Politics by Jeffrey Meyers Frank Callanan (1956-2021) was a learned Irish barrister and Joyce scholar, but during his 20 long years of writing James Joyce:…
All Is Speculation Jeffrey Meyers Look here upon this picture, and on this. Hamlet In Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found (Norton, 2025, 370p, $45),…
Complexifying Performativity by Jeffrey Meyers Theatre Picasso. Ed. Rosalie Doubal and Natalia Sidlina. London: Tate Modern, 2025. 128p, £25. The editors say that Picasso’s Three Dancers…
Stranger in a Strange Land Jeffrey Meyers Greenland is in the news. President Trump wants to take over the country. But Denmark, which rules the…
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