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Prufrock: A Problematic Portrait of Paul, the Success of Christian Zionism, and Richard Wagner’s Prose

September 26, 2018 · Prufrock, Web Only, culture

Also: Medieval wellness tips, a defense of Ian Buruma, and more.

Prufrock: How to Recognize a Leonardo, No Work of Art Is 'Necessary,' and the Decline of 'Time'

May 24, 2018 · Prufrock

Also: The Third Crusade revisited, clocks and productivity, and more.

Prufrock: Mystery Writing and The White House, Remembering Philip Roth, and the Christian Case for Psychedelics

May 23, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: The Freud fraud, the family affair of Icelandic fiction, and more.

Prufrock: Southern Names, Sexist Wollstonecraft, and a History of Ireland

May 22, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: How Oscar Hammerstein transformed Broadway, what 200,000 stars look like, and more.

Prufrock: The Pearl of Lao Tzu Hoax, the Elegies of Maximianus, and Medieval Trade Routes

May 21, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Art

Also: The greatest French museum you've never heard of, why a copyright term extension is a bad idea, and more.

Prufrock: Weaponized Baroque, the Notorious Lord Byron, and a History of the Bank of England

May 18, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: What is Poet Voice?

Prufrock: A History of Teeth, Modern Mavericks, and in Praise of Brooks Brothers

May 17, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: Lars von Trier trolls Cannes, restored pages of Anne Frank’s diary, and more.

Prufrock: Remembering Tom Wolfe, Prescient Percy, and Tim Cook’s Banal Commencement Speech

May 16, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: Henry Kissinger on the dangers of AI, the myth of the mad genius, and more.

Prufrock: Cashless Crimes, How Newspapers Die, and in Praise of Patriotism Rightly Understood

May 15, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Art

Also: William Trevor’s style, how to remember words, and more.

Prufrock: Woke Technology, a History of Tap, and the Scientific Case for Two Spacesafter a Period

May 14, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: Thomas Cole’s conservative conservationism, and more.

Prufrock: Mary vs. Elizabeth, the Letters of Russell Kirk, and the Cult of Patrick Leigh Fermor

May 11, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: Roger Scruton’s Britain, William Trevor’s last stories, and more.

Prufrock: Should Artists Protest Trump, Is Pablo Neruda Still Worth Reading, and Are Kids the Enemy of Writing?

May 10, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo philosophy, Beethoven’s genius, and more.

Prufrock: The Rise of Publishing’s Morality Clause, Robin Williams’s Final Days, and the Most Useless Job

May 9, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Art

Also: Wikipedia’s most-cited article, and more.

Prufrock: Crazy Surrealists, Coates on West on Trump, and W. H. Auden’s Realism

May 8, 2018 · Prufrock, Books

Also: Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, and more.

Prufrock: A Card from Jack the Ripper, Cambridge's Mysterious Library Tower, and the Function of Criticism

May 7, 2018 · Prufrock, home page

Also: Feelings in the Age of Reason, and more.

Prufrock: The Faces of Cézanne, a Canceled Nobel, and Walking New York in the Footsteps of Jane Jacobs

May 4, 2018 · Prufrock, home page

Plus: Will identity politics ruin the musical?

Prufrock: Decolonizing the Art Museum, Uncool Nixon, and Melville’s Lost Novel

May 3, 2018 · Prufrock, home page

Also: Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags reconsidered, further details on Wolfe firing, and more.

Prufrock: Dumb Book Lists, the Meaning of ‘Seinfeld’, and Dostoevsky’s Christian Ideal

May 2, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Art

Also: The beauty of math, how to curtail crony capitalism, and more.

Prufrock: Hitler’s Jawbone, in Praise of Puns, and Advice for Artists

May 1, 2018 · Prufrock, Books

Also: Medieval abbeys, the first recording of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and more.

Prufrock: Mississippi’s Literary Trail and How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built

April 30, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: Romian Gary’s idealism, a self-centered guide to writing poetry, and more.

Prufrock: The Last Man to Know Everything, the Most Bizarre Museum Heist, and Hard-Boiled Berlin

April 27, 2018 · Prufrock, home page

Also: Jason Matthews’s thrilling end to the Red Sparrow series, and more.

Prufrock: The Suicide of the West, Theybies, and the Stories Libraries Tell

April 26, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: Why the The Seagull is so hard to adapt, a life of Enzo Ferrari, and more.

Prufrock: The Injustices of Algorithms, the End of the Professional Songwriter, and Court Rules Against Monkey

April 25, 2018

Also: The end of The Avengers, there is no such thing as suburbia, and more.

Prufrock: In Defense of Cash, Merton and Dylan, and the Complete Julius Caesar

April 24, 2018 · Prufrock, home page

Also: Is pottery art? Is music a human right?

Prufrock: Concentration Camp Songs, Da Vinci Conspiracies, and the Future of Britain

April 23, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: The diversions of Dollywood, Anthony Burgess’s unpublished essays, and more.

Prufrock: Merton's Monastery, Abbot's Jazz-Age Photography, and Willie Nelson Keeps on Truckin'

April 20, 2018 · Prufrock, home page

Also: Download 16,016 BBC sound effects.

Prufrock: The Big Influence of Small Presses, a History of the Dollar-a-Word Rate, Meteorites with Diamonds

April 19, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: The heart of Queen Anne of Brittany has been stolen.

Prufrock: The Mindlessness of Critical Theory, Bioprospecting Norwegians, and Freeman Dyson’s Life in Letters

April 18, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: The misleading New York Times best-seller list, and more.

Prufrock: Kay Boyle in Paris, Pulitzer Prize Winners, and the Suicidal West

April 17, 2018 · Prufrock, Books & Art

Also: An altered memoir of a kidnapped Jewish boy, addiction in early modern England, and more.

Prufrock: Elizabeth Jennings’s Poetry, Edward Gorey’s Illustrated Covers, and Why Liverpool Matters

April 16, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Arts

Also: Are English professors to blame for Donald Trump?

Prufrock: Books and Baseball, Why Fastballs Won't Get Any Faster, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Remains

April 13, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: Why Robert E. Lee was never tried for treason, how the sweet potato took over the world, and more.

Prufrock: Is the University for Everyone, How Big Was Andre the Giant, and Who Was Edward Lear?

April 12, 2018 · home page, Prufrock

Also: Why literature matters, remembering J. D. McClatchy, and more.

Prufrock: Another Tolkien Book, the Centrality of the Judeo-Christian Tradition in the Arts, and Returning Home

April 11, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Arts

Also: The early days of Buckley’s National Review remembered.

Prufrock: The Magic of Libraries, the Dark Ladies of American Letters, and Chaos at the Swedish Academy

April 10, 2018 · Prufrock, Books and Arts

Also: The monasteries of Meteora.

Prufrock: The Soviet Map of the World, a Short History of a City Block, and Why Muriel Spark Will Last

April 9, 2018 · Books and Arts

Also: Why are there so many mirrors in Victorian paintings?

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