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…
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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…
South from Granada by Gerald Brenan (1957). As a teenager in the British Army, Gerald Brenan won a Military Cross in World War I. His…
In “King Pest,” Poe’s understudied story contains a broader critique of the self-serving and autocratic governmental tendencies that Jackson had come to embody in the eyes of his opponents.
Satire in the Global Village By Dan Geddes[1] From the talk, “Satire in the Global Village” given at the Institute of General Semantics’ symposium on…
Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote…
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman (Translated by Elizabeth Manton) Review by Dan Geddes Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) makes compelling arguments for the redistribution…
Thomas Pynchon is one of the most influential and critically revered American novelists of his time. Pynchon’s verbal virtuosity, multi-dimensional erudition, and anarchic sense of…
Rick Perlstein Review by Dan Geddes 13 March 2015 The Invisible Bridge is a guilty pleasure for those who enjoy 1970s nostalgia. It chronicles that…
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