Misguided Attempt Jeffrey Meyers James Van Dyke. Otto Dix: Painting and Precarity in the Field of Weimar Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2026, 288p, $55.…
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Popular book reviews and analyses include The Handmaid’s Tale, Gravity’s Rainbow, and The Genealogy of Morals.
The Concept of Unclean Jeffrey Meyers “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” The concept of unclean begins with disease and ends with death. The biblical laws…
Whistlering in the Dark by Jeffrey Meyers James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is well known for his expulsion from West Point; for his iconic “Whistler’s Mother,”…
The Care and Handling of a Literary Widow, or Why I Didn’t Write Ted Roethke’s Biography Jeffrey Meyers In my book about mad poets, Manic…
John Clare: Faithful Are the Wounds Jeffrey Meyers In an appreciative essay of 1992, Seamus Heaney notes the principal events in the life of John…
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…
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…
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