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Prufrock

707 articles 2016–2018

Prufrock: The Fury of Modern Architecture, Frankenstein at 200, and Luck in Scrabble

Micah Mattix · December 14, 2018

Also: Michel Houellebecq in Praise of Donald Trump, and more.

Prufrock: The MFA Sham, 'Silent Night' at 200, and Dickens in Washington

Micah Mattix · December 13, 2018

Also: A short history of the poinsettia, green madness, and more.

Prufrock: Philip Larkin’s Everyday Life, the Harvard Effect Reconsidered, and Online Shaming

Micah Mattix · December 12, 2018

Also: Writing and walking, a fake poet returns to Twitter, and more.

Prufrock: NPR’s Temps, the Political Novelist Today, and Wordsworth’s Ice Skates

Micah Mattix · December 11, 2018

Also: Kelly’s Slater’s wave, a life of Thomas Cromwell, and more.

Prufrock: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at 100, King Arthur and the Inklings, and Sylvia Plath’s Final Letters

Micah Mattix · December 10, 2018

Also: Flannery O’Connor’s letters to Caroline Gordon, and more.

Prufrock: Tom Stoppard and Faith, a Cultural History of the Shoeshiner, and Surfing the Baltic Sea

Micah Mattix · December 7, 2018

Also: The women of Abstract Expressionism, and more.

Prufrock: Bad Theatre Behavior, the Return of the Classics, and the Rise in Book Coverage

Micah Mattix · December 6, 2018

Also: God in Denis Johnson’s work, and more.

Prufrock: The Importance of Style, Silent Sam to Return to Campus, and Literary Fathers

Micah Mattix · December 4, 2018

Also: A short history of adaptations of Animal Farm, and more.

Prufrock: A 400-Year-Old Collection of John Donne’s Poetry, the End of the American Heritage’s Usage Panel, and a History of the Pyrenees

Micah Mattix · December 3, 2018

Also: The return of Jeeves, the decline of History, and more.

Prufrock: A 400-Year-Old Collection of John Donne’s Poetry, the End of the American Heritage’s Usage Panel, and a History of the Pyrenees

Micah Mattix · December 3, 2018

Also: The return of Jeeves, the decline of History, and more.

Prufrock: The World’s Most Successful Cybercriminal, the Eradication of Christians in the Middle East, and a Complaint about Blurbs

Micah Mattix · November 30, 2018

Also: China’s chilling domestic spying program, Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters, and more.

Prufrock: The World’s Most Successful Cybercriminal, the Eradication of Christians in the Middle East, and a Complaint about Blurbs

Micah Mattix · November 30, 2018

Also: China’s chilling domestic spying program, Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters, and more.

Prufrock: The World’s Most Successful Cybercriminal, the Eradication of Christians in the Middle East, and a Complaint about Blurbs

Micah Mattix · November 30, 2018

Also: China’s chilling domestic spying program, Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters, and more.

Prufrock: A History of the African Middle Ages, Another Poetry Controversy, and Placekickers

Micah Mattix · November 29, 2018

Also: Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s sequel, and more.

Prufrock: The Enigma of Rome, 100 Years of Crime Fiction, and Saving the Humanities

Micah Mattix · November 2, 2018

Also: How smoking can save lives, and more.

Prufrock: Sylvia Plath’s Letters, Saul Bellow’s World, and Roy Orbison’s Hologram

Micah Mattix · November 1, 2018

Also: Donald Hall’s productive final years, and more.

Prufrock: The MPAA Rating Turns 50, in Praise of Literary Hoaxes, and a History of Reddit

Micah Mattix · October 31, 2018

Also: Rod Dreher recommends A Gentleman In Moscow, and more.

Prufrock: The Last Lighthouse Keeper in Capri, the Return of Tiny Books, Lionel Trilling’s Moral Criticism

Micah Mattix · October 30, 2018

Also: The lessons of Rome’s decline, and more.

Prufrock: The Impish Return of Bruno Latour, a Literary Tour of Russian Revolutionary Violence, and the English Musical Renaissance Reconsidered

Micah Mattix · October 29, 2018

Also: The life and poetry of Helen Pinkerton, British detective shows, and more.

Prufrock: Naguib Mahfouz’s World, Philip Larkin’s Letters Home, and Frank Stella’sMoby Dick

Micah Mattix · October 26, 2018

Also: The relationship between geography and time, how Kit Kat conquered Japan, and more.

Prufrock: A 2,400-Year-Old Ship, the Case of the Lost Caravaggio, and William Shakespeare Was a What?

Micah Mattix · October 25, 2018

Also: The outrageous economics of peer-reviewed journals, and more.

Prufrock: Almost Everyone Hates Political Correctness, C. S. Lewis on Friendship, and Remembering ‘Skippy’

Micah Mattix · October 24, 2018

Also: A trip to kitschy Salem, Massachusetts, and more.

Prufrock: Charles Dickens’s Unfinished Mystery, Honor and the American Revolution, and the Strange Beginnings of Scientology

Micah Mattix · October 23, 2018

Also: How James Joyce’s father shaped his writing, and more.

Prufrock: In Praise of Bing Crosby, Italy’s Oldest Musical Instrument, and the Meaningless Nobel Prize in Literature

Micah Mattix · October 22, 2018

Also: Jason Lutes’s “expansive” Berlin, in defense of the “bookish” life, and more.

Prufrock: Russell Kirk’s Politics, the End of Dictionaries, and a History of Notre Dame’s Gargoyles

Micah Mattix · October 19, 2018

Also: The eccentric Mark Twain, the most successful sitcom star ever, and more.

Prufrock: Harvey Milk and Jim Jones, Big Bird Retires, and the First Abstract Painter

Micah Mattix · October 18, 2018

Also: Image appoints new editors, PEN America sues Donald Trump, and more.

Prufrock: Paul Allen’s Art, in Praise of William Hazlitt, and How Not to Write a Review

Micah Mattix · October 17, 2018

Also: Israeli science fiction, the novels of Robin Jenkins, and more.

Prufrock: Knausgaard Gives Up, Wodehouse Gets Westminster Abbey Memorial, and the Seven-String Guitar Lives On in Iowa

Micah Mattix · October 16, 2018

Also: The most popular kids’ show on YouTube, and more.

Prufrock: A History of the American Circus, the Evolution of Retail, and the Wave Pool Wars

Micah Mattix · October 15, 2018

Also: The music of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, why you should read Huxley’s Brave New World, and more.

Prufrock: Flawed Education Rankings, Shakespeare’s Supposed Misogyny, and the Meaning of the ‘Aeneid’

Micah Mattix · October 10, 2018

Also: In praise of Frank Miller, China’s most controversial novelist, and more.

Prufrock: On Buying Too Many Books, Growing Up in the Library, and Andy Warhol’s Hometown

Micah Mattix · October 9, 2018

Also: T. S. Eliot on winning the Nobel, a history of the nightcap, and more.

Prufrock: Another Sokal Hoax, Banksy’s Shredded Art, and the Holocaust in Italy

Micah Mattix · October 8, 2018

Also: “Instagram poetry is a huckster’s paradise,” and more.

Prufrock: In Praise of Wombats, Ornate Victorian Churches, and the End of Christian Humanism

Micah Mattix · October 5, 2018

Also: A dull French Exit, how China hacked America’s biggest companies, and more.

Prufrock: A Life of Bellow, the Decline of Britain, and the Life and Work of Andre Dubus

Micah Mattix · October 4, 2018

The persistence of Scots, and more.

Prufrock: The Last Swiss Finishing School, ‘Life and Fate’ at 30, and Charles Dickens’s Pet Ravens

Micah Mattix · October 3, 2018

Also: The iconography of Vladimir Grigorenko, and more.

Prufrock: Waugh at War, Young Ben Franklin, and Defining Public Goods

Micah Mattix · October 2, 2018

Also: The mundane life of a dinosaur bone smuggler, and more.

Prufrock: The Death of Opera in America, a History of the Book, and Atheism in Soviet Communism

Micah Mattix · September 28, 2018

Also: Revisiting a 1920s art hoax, and more.

Prufrock: Howard Zinn's Monolithic History, Guy Davenport's Chairman Mao, and a Flannery O'Connor Reading List

Micah Mattix · September 27, 2018

Also: Against Banned Books Week, a “snappy” history of Rome, and more.

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

Prufrock · September 26, 2018

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

Prufrock: Invisible Nations, Against Open Borders, and a History of the Advice Column

Micah Mattix · September 25, 2018

Also: William Faulkner at the post office, the poetry of the mosh pit, and more.

Prufrock: The Magic of Literary Maps, the First Council of Nicaea Church, and How Auto-Tune Ruined Pop

Micah Mattix · September 24, 2018

Also: Has the podcast bubble burst?

Prufrock: The Meaning of ‘My Struggle,’ Britain’s Secret War on Napoleon, and Why Ian Buruma Resigned

Micah Mattix · September 21, 2018

Also: What happened to Dinesh D’Souza, Salvator Mundi in Baton Rouge, and more.

Prufrock: Ian Buruma Out at NYRB, the Death of the Celebrity Profile, and the Future of Ecumenism

Micah Mattix · September 20, 2018

Also: The OED asks teenagers about their “particularly elusive” language, and more.

Prufrock: Pushkin’s Poetry on Stage, “Social Credit” in China, and a Defense of “Useless” Philosophy Courses

Micah Mattix · September 19, 2018

Also: J. K. Rowling’s latest reviewed, a definition of “late” capitalism, and more.

Prufrock: Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, First-Year Experience Indoctrination, and Russell Kirk’s Metaphysical Horror

Micah Mattix · September 18, 2018

Also: Self-published novel makes longlist in France, a review of David Ferry’s Aeneid, and more.

Prufrock: The Failure of Reconstruction, a Defense of Cromwell, and the World’s Worst Popular President

Micah Mattix · September 17, 2018

Also: National Book Award longlists, and more.

Prufrock: Anthony Burgess’s Criticism, the Case for the Sabbath, and the Relevance of James Fenimore Cooper

Micah Mattix · September 14, 2018

Also: René Girard’s turn to God, John Wilson on Donald Hall, and more.

Prufrock: Giacometti’s Genius, David Foster Wallace’s Good and Bad Luck, and a Moderate Defense of Stereotypes

Micah Mattix · September 13, 2018

Also: A history of “cool,” and more.

Prufrock: Biblical Blue, Gertrude Stein’s Fascism, and Psychology’s Crisis

Micah Mattix · September 12, 2018

Also: Peter Hitchens reviews George R. R. Martin, Reno reviews Goldberg, and more.

Prufrock: The Marvelous Muriel Spark and Who Owns Bach?

Micah Mattix · September 11, 2018

Also: Matt Labash visits a right-wing street artist, Royal domestic lives, congressional violence, and more.

Prufrock: Battles over the Booker, Dumb Science, and Beethoven’s Friend

Micah Mattix · September 10, 2018

Also: How not to get a raise, internships in America, and more.

Prufrock: A Definition of ‘the West,’ the Poetry Plagiarism Detective, and John Quincy Adams’s Forgotten Epic Poem

Micah Mattix · September 7, 2018

Also: A visit to the Pilotta museum complex, the films of Hal Ashby reconsidered, and more.

Prufrock: Dorothy’s Stolen Ruby Slippers, Kelly Slater’s Desert Wave Pool, and a Wise 19th-Century Wrestling Memoir

Micah Mattix · September 6, 2018

Also: The Atlantic’s new Ideas section, the return of French electro-pop, and more.

Prufrock: The Man Who Drew Middle-earth, a Family’s Siberian Exile, and the Search for a 'Barefoot Bookseller'

Micah Mattix · September 5, 2018

Also: Deirdre McCloskey reviews Why Liberalism Failed, J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction, and more.

Prufrock: The End of ‘My Struggle’, the Extraordinary ‘Paston Treasure’, and Clive James’s Epic Poem

Micah Mattix · September 4, 2018

Also: In praise of Joan Aiken’s magical children’s books, why baseball endures, and more.

Prufrock: The Women of Impressionism, the Last Blockbuster in America, and in Search of the Lost Monastery of Deer

Micah Mattix · August 31, 2018

Also: A gentler William Logan, Hemingway’s destructive infatuation, and more.

Prufrock: Pottermania at 20, Islam in ‘The Divine Comedy’, and a Dumb Book on Socialism

Micah Mattix · August 30, 2018

Also: My Ántonia at 100, the evolution of logos, and more.

Prufrock: Van Gogh in the Asylum, Therapeutic Identity Politics, and Swimming the English Channel at 11

Micah Mattix · August 29, 2018

Also: Louis C. K. returns to stand-up, the late style of John Coltrane, and more.

Prufrock: Tolkien’s Last Posthumous Book, Conservatives for Utopia, and Picasso’s Early Work

Micah Mattix · August 28, 2018

Also: Our Myers-Briggs obsession, the problem with skim reading, and more.

Prufrock: The Evolution of Ross MacDonald, an Ancient Foal, and Delacroix’s Drawings

Micah Mattix · August 27, 2018

Also: A 101-year-old novelist, China’s $180-million telescope, and more.

Prufrock: The Humanities in Crisis (Again), a Defense of Modern Architecture, and Kevin Spacey’s Failed Film

Micah Mattix · August 25, 2018

Also: David Pryce-Jones remembers V. S. Naipaul, and more.

Prufrock: Conspiracy Theories Explained, Insta Novels, and How Phones are Changing Family Life

Micah Mattix · August 23, 2018

Also: Catullus’s epic, Christina Dalcher’s 'Vox,' and more.

Prufrock: Ingmar Bergman and God, Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and the Racism of Identity Politics

Micah Mattix · August 22, 2018

Also: Revisiting the life and work of Paul Horgan, and more.

Prufrock: Joseph Epstein on Charm, the Problem with Efficiency, and Wasp-Eating Vines

Micah Mattix · August 21, 2018

Also: A lesson from Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, in defense of nationalism, and more.

Prufrock: A Lost City in Kansas, Ancient Cheese, and the Life and Work of Vladimir Voinovich

Micah Mattix · August 20, 2018

Also: David Jones’s politics, in praise of Tumblr, and more.

Prufrock: Remembering Aretha Franklin, Stolen Chinese Art, and in Praise of Karel Capek

Micah Mattix · August 17, 2018

Also: Watching Nicolas Cage movies for 14 hours straight, and more.

Prufrock: In Praise of Road Trips, a “Radically Inclusive” Shakespeare, and Migratory Pollination

Micah Mattix · August 16, 2018

Also: English pop songs by Swedish musicians, a life of Charlotte Lennox, and more.

Prufrock: How Shays’s Rebellion Shaped the Constitution, the Return of the Generation Gap in Pop, and in Praise of Alfred Brendel

Micah Mattix · August 15, 2018

Also: Turning your tweets into a book is a terrible idea.

Prufrock: How to Organize Your Books, Clone Your Pet, and Fly Fish in the Bronx

Micah Mattix · August 14, 2018

Also: Thomas Sowell’s inconvenient truths, England’s lost king, and more.

Prufrock: Langston Hughes’s Birthdate, Playing Verdi on Repeat for 16 Years, and Canova’s Washington

Micah Mattix · August 13, 2018

Also: Remembering V.S. Naipaul, David Horowitz’s prescience, and more.

Prufrock: Justin Bieber Reads Tim Keller, Matt Groening’s New Animated Series, and in Defense of Hunting

Micah Mattix · August 10, 2018

Also: The fight over Kafka, tallboys, and more.

Prufrock: 19th-Century Plowman Cults, Meeting Flannery O’Connor, and an Inmate Reviews the Classics

Micah Mattix · August 9, 2018

Also: Visiting Emily Brontë’s moors, and more.

Prufrock: The Failure of the Humanities, Against the Promotional Intellectual, and a History of Hymnbooks

Micah Mattix · August 8, 2018

Also: The Abolition of Man at 75, and more.

Prufrock: Nonsensical Protests Against Cultural Appropriation, Japanese Ghosts, and a History of Captain Cook’s Ship

Micah Mattix · August 7, 2018

Also: The euro mistake, in praise of newsletters, and more.

Prufrock: Rome’s Sackings, Bad 19th-Century Utopian Literature, and the Sound of Ancient Greek Music

Micah Mattix · August 6, 2018

Also: Alan Garner’s English childhood, Joshua Hren’s short stories, and more.

Prufrock: BookTubing, the Mediterranean in the English Imagination, and Learning French

Micah Mattix · August 3, 2018

Also: Hollywood’s Cold War blacklist, how screens limit learning, and more.

Prufrock: Ruggiero Ricci’s Talent, the Dutch Crime World, and a Flesh-and-Blood Descartes

Micah Mattix · August 2, 2018

Also: A.E.W. Mason’s The Four Feathers, rare medieval Bible returned to cathedral, and more.

Prufrock: The Real Steven Pinker, the Young Men Who Love Waugh, and Pablo Neruda Today

Micah Mattix · August 1, 2018

Also: The dangers of mistranslation, The Originalist reviewed, and more.

Prufrock: Jefferson’s Books, Constantine’s Church, and Pierre Manent’s Defense of Political Liberalism

Micah Mattix · July 31, 2018

Also: In praise of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the other riders in the Tour, and more.

Prufrock: Priests and UFOs, Living in an Unrecognized Country, and a Film of ‘Hamilton’

Micah Mattix · July 30, 2018

Also: What Russian populism can teach us today, and more.

Prufrock: Why Eudora Welty Hated AC, Gala’s Strange Life, and a Literary Con Artist in LA

Micah Mattix · July 27, 2018

Also: An indulgent biography of Donald Maclean, and more.

Prufrock: Oscar Wilde’s Last Years, Sean Spicer’s Dad Memoir, and What Vikings Were Really Like

Micah Mattix · July 26, 2018

Also: The life and music of Ukrainian Jews, how the opioid crisis began, and more.

Prufrock: Understanding Civility, Jane Austen’s First Reader, and a New Way to See Distant Planets

Micah Mattix · July 25, 2018

Also: The Trotskyite in the Gulag, the best English detective novel, and more.

Prufrock: Messy ‘Wuthering Heights’, Hacking Museum Tours, and the Man Booker Longlist

Micah Mattix · July 24, 2018

Also: Dictator lit, slavery and American wealth, and more.

Prufrock: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Vermont Home, Ta-Nehisi Coates Leaves ‘The Atlantic’, and the Last Japanese City

Micah Mattix · July 23, 2018

Also: “Almost everything about the Rudyard Kipling row is stupid,” and more.

Prufrock: In Defense of Authorial Intention, Reading the Unreadable, and How the Crusades Were Won

Micah Mattix · July 18, 2018

Also: What Merton teaches us today, strange nineteenth-century Iranian art, a reader recommends Leibowitz, and more.

Prufrock: Elusive Lisbon, the Art of the Romanovs, and Umberto Eco’s Last Essays

Micah Mattix · July 17, 2018

Also: Peter Lanyon’s art of sky and air, giving up on baseball, and more.

Prufrock: Enduring Auden, the Serious Charm of Edward Bawden, in Praise of the National Trust

Micah Mattix · July 16, 2018

Also: The ethics of tact, Bergman at 100, and more.

Prufrock: Proust vs. Powell, Ted Kooser’s Friendly Poems, and the Alternative Nobel’s Longlist

Micah Mattix · July 13, 2018

Also: Don’t follow your passions.

Prufrock: Jewish Life in the Work of Marc Chagall, in Class with Geoffrey Hill, and Why Everybody Loves Lee Child

Micah Mattix · July 12, 2018

Also: Should teachers use Minecraft to get kids interested in reading?

Prufrock: Oldest Extract of ‘The Odyssey’, Longest Painting in North America, and a Bioluminescent Sea

Micah Mattix · July 11, 2018

Also: What is a faithful translation?

Prufrock: Google and Gaming, the Navy’s E-Reader, and the Original Meaning of Cultural Appropriation

Micah Mattix · July 10, 2018

Also: An interview with the new chairman of the NEH, and more.

Prufrock: Europe’s Carbon Dioxide Shortage, Tom Wolfe’s Cartoons, and in Defense of Men

Micah Mattix · July 9, 2018

Also: The 1518 dancing plague of Strasbourg, bad memoirs, and more.

Prufrock: A History of Ice Cream, the Story of the Sneaker, and Lewis Carroll in Russia

Micah Mattix · July 6, 2018

Also: A life of Alcibiades, Christian hospitality, and more.

Prufrock: A Message from Charles I, Flann O’Brien’s Vitriol, and the Real D. B. Cooper

Micah Mattix · July 5, 2018

Also: An alternative Nobel Prize in Literature, the obscene price of art, and more.

Prufrock: The Romantic War Poet, How Racial Preferences in Admissions Backfire, and in Praise of Black-and-White Films

Micah Mattix · June 29, 2018

Also: Ange Mlinko on the creativity of constraints, and more.

Prufrock: The Jackie Robinson of Rodeo, the Real Romain Gary, and Reading the Rav

Micah Mattix · June 28, 2018

Also: Would you pay to run a bookstore on vacation? Dwight Garner did.

Prufrock: On Not Being a Black Artist, Jonathan Franzen’s Camry, and Fishing

Micah Mattix · June 27, 2018

Also: Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan, and more.

Prufrock: In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger, What Makes Science Science, and the World’s Smallest Desert

Micah Mattix · June 26, 2018

Also: The most complete inventory of human depravity, Rockefeller Center’s lost botanical garden, and more.

Prufrock: Van Gogh and Japan, the Danger of Google.gov, and a History of the Fork

Micah Mattix · June 25, 2018

Also: Remembering Donald Hall, Leonardo da Vinci’s earliest work, and more.

Prufrock: False Monuments, Rigged Musical Competitions, and the End of Affirmative Action in University Admissions

Micah Mattix · June 22, 2018

Also: Remembering Charles Krauthammer, and more.

Prufrock: Manual Manhood, Lincoln’s Humor, and Václav Benda’s Dissent

Micah Mattix · June 21, 2018

Also: Remembering Stanley Cavell, in praise of wasted time, and more.

Prufrock: How de Gaulle became de Gaulle, the Return of Shirley Collins, and the OED’s Search for Regionalisms

Micah Mattix · June 20, 2018

Also: Japanese fiction after Haruki Murakami, and more.

Prufrock: War and the Rise of GPS, the Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Johnson, and the Last Cowboys

Micah Mattix · June 19, 2018

Also: What Robinson Jeffers can teach us today.

Prufrock: The Stanford Prison Experiment Sham, Jane Kenyon’s Peonies, and Living in France

Micah Mattix · June 18, 2018

Also: Will the Voynich manuscript mystery ever be solved?

Prufrock: Consciousness Studies Gone Wild, a History of Jewish Graffiti, and the Beauty of Soccer

Micah Mattix · June 15, 2018

Also: A new photo of the heir to the Russian throne, the end of the SAT at Chicago, and more.

Prufrock: How Burke Became a Conservative, the Paul Pine Mysteries, and True Detective Arthur Conan Doyle

Micah Mattix · June 14, 2018

Also: Lionel Shriver removed from literary prize jury.

Prufrock: A History of Hadrian’s Wall, Einstein’s Xenophobia, and the Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar

Micah Mattix · June 13, 2018

Also: A Benedictine beatnik and more.

Prufrock: The Diversity Cult, Georgia O’Keeffe in Hawaii, and a Defense of Classical Liberalism

Micah Mattix · June 11, 2018

Also: Dominic Green remembers John Julius Norwich, author lands $2 million advance, and more.

Prufrock: Misremembering May 1968, an Unlikely Friendship, and Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address at 40

Micah Mattix · June 8, 2018

Also: The limits of human endurance, tulips, and more.

Prufrock: In Praise of Stoicism, a History of Science Fiction, and the Future of Classical Architecture

Micah Mattix · June 7, 2018

Also: What do copy editors do, and what’s the point of elevator music?

Prufrock: Shakespeare’s Science, Revisiting Updike’s ‘Couples,’ and Claude Monet’s Cinematic Eye

Micah Mattix · June 6, 2018

Also: The nightmarish logic of Bruno Schulz, Sergio de la Pava’s Lost Empress, and more.

Prufrock: Old Stuff in Italy, How to Write a Biography without Facts, and Coleman Hughes on Race Imagery

Micah Mattix · June 5, 2018

Also: The paper that poisoned its printers, the true meaning of the Pentagon Papers, and more.

Prufrock: The Real Benedict Arnold, Constantine’s Finger, and Shakespeare’s Rome

Micah Mattix · June 4, 2018

Also: The return of Firing Line, the second-worst poet in English, and more.

Prufrock: Globe Theatre Goes Full SJW, the Mystery of ‘American Gothic,’ and the Genius of Heinrich Heine

Micah Mattix · May 25, 2018

The lessons of mid-century Catholic fiction lit crit, and more.

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

Prufrock · May 24, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 23, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · May 22, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 21, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 18, 2018

Also: What is Poet Voice?

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

Prufrock · May 17, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 16, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 15, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 14, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · May 11, 2018

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?

Prufrock · May 10, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 9, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · May 8, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 7, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 4, 2018

Plus: Will identity politics ruin the musical?

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

Prufrock · May 3, 2018

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

Prufrock · May 2, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · May 1, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 30, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 27, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 26, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · April 24, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · April 23, 2018

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'

Prufrock · April 20, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 19, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 18, 2018

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

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

Prufrock · April 17, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 16, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 13, 2018

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?

Prufrock · April 12, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 11, 2018

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

Prufrock · April 10, 2018

Also: The monasteries of Meteora.

Prufrock: Gentry Against Gentrification, the Milky Way's Black Holes, and the Future of Science

Micah Mattix · April 6, 2018

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Prufrock: Boomer Culture Is America's Only Culture, the End of Handwriting, and the Enduring Enigma of Nefertiti

Micah Mattix · April 5, 2018

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Prufrock: In Praise of Goats, the Phoenician Fantasy, and '2001: A Space Odyssey' at 50

Micah Mattix · April 4, 2018

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Prufrock: The Education of MLK and the Small Town that Prints 100 Million Books a Year

Micah Mattix · April 3, 2018

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Prufrock: The Hardest Course, Harold Bloom's Solitary Path, and the Increasingly Absurd Identity Ideology

Micah Mattix · April 2, 2018

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Prufrock: The Science of 'Paradise Lost,' the Pound Problem, and Against Contemporary Children's Crusades

Micah Mattix · March 29, 2018

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Prufrock: The Tybee Bomb, Lithuania's Day of the Book Smugglers, and the Most Cultured City in America

Micah Mattix · March 28, 2018

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Prufrock: Michelangelo's Villa, Ben Jonson's Annotated Plays, and Renoir's Onions

Micah Mattix · March 27, 2018

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Prufrock: Vicious and Playful Ravens, German Art after the War, and Heavenly Proofs

Micah Mattix · March 26, 2018

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Prufrock: Napoleon's English, Performing Milton, and an Unflattering Portrait of Prince Charles

Micah Mattix · March 23, 2018

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Prufrock: Cormac McCarthy's Sources, How to Think about Patriotism, and Dictator Lit

Micah Mattix · March 22, 2018

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Prufrock: When Christian Rock Was Cool, Leonard Bernstein's "Raucous" Household, and Poverty Literature

Micah Mattix · March 21, 2018

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Prufrock: The Mooch Writes, Big Tech and Culture, and Edward Gorey's Phantasmagorical World

Micah Mattix · March 19, 2018

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Prufrock: Sohrab Ahmari on the Trans Movement, the Art of Directing, and St. Patrick's Day Reading

Micah Mattix · March 16, 2018

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Prufrock: The Liberal Neuhaus, Samuel Johnson and the Law, and the Problem with Privilege

Micah Mattix · March 15, 2018

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Prufrock: The Problem with the FICO score, How Napoleon Lost, and Against the Consciousness Deniers

Micah Mattix · March 14, 2018

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Prufrock: The Unquotable Einstein, the Disneyfication of the Sistine Chapel, and the Life and Novels of Ross Macdonald

Micah Mattix · March 13, 2018

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Prufrock: The Paradoxical Renoir, Making Realism New, and the Life of Julius Caesar

Micah Mattix · March 12, 2018

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Prufrock: When a Copy Isn't a Copy, the Decline of Music Writing, and 'The Big Lebowski' at 20

Micah Mattix · March 9, 2018

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Prufrock: The Other Beatrix Potter, Vatican Hackathon, and Norman Mailer's Library

Micah Mattix · March 8, 2018

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Prufrock: The Multifaceted Jane Austen, Shakespeare's Originality, and the Work of Mariano Fortuny

Micah Mattix · March 7, 2018

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Prufrock: Wodehouse's Frivolity, the Rugged 'Crime and Punishment', and Camus's Correspondence

Micah Mattix · March 6, 2018

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Prufrock: The Meaning of St. Petersburg, the Problem with Algorithms, and the Epic after Homer

Micah Mattix · March 5, 2018

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Prufrock: Libraries, the Family Byron, and Alien Tourism in America

Micah Mattix · March 2, 2018

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Prufrock: Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write 'Captain America' Comics, Thomas Cole Reconsidered, and the Most Powerful Passports

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Prufrock: The Death of a Bohemian Utopia, Harper Lee's Confusing Will, and Britain's Most Popular Poet

Micah Mattix · February 28, 2018

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Prufrock: Buckley on Writing Fiction, the Search for Oblivion, and the Odd Isaac Newton

Micah Mattix · February 27, 2018

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Prufrock: Virginia Woolf's Cornwall, Flannery O'Connor's Book Reviews, and in Praise of Learning Latin the Old Way

Micah Mattix · February 26, 2018

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Prufrock: Chateaubriand's Memoirs, the Forgotten Dean of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Return of Debtors' Prison

Micah Mattix · February 23, 2018

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Prufrock: Germany's Philosopher-Provocateur, in Praise of the Negative Review, and Why Liberalism Failed

Micah Mattix · February 22, 2018

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Prufrock: The Writer We Need Today, Stupid Ebooks, and the French Cabaret in the Trees

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Prufrock: The Minister Who Killed His Mother, John le Carr's Politics, and Transgenderism's Assault on Reality

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Prufrock: George Washington's Hair, the Power of Dictionaries, and Nabokov's Dreams

Micah Mattix · February 19, 2018

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Prufrock: Trump's 'Faith,' the Future of Wood, and the Art of Reading in a Digital Age

Micah Mattix · February 16, 2018

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Prufrock: The Myth of Dog Shame, the Oxfam Scandal, and How to Talk Like Trump

Micah Mattix · February 15, 2018

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Prufrock: Floating Uranium above Alaska, Choosing Your Own Race in Delaware, and Prehistoric Wine

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Prufrock: The Obama Portraits, Van Gogh's Doctor, and Jack Kerouac Catholicism

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Prufrock: Harry Potter Fans Against Rowling, Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship, and a History of the Horse

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Micah Mattix · February 9, 2018

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Prufrock: Shakespeare's Source Text, Tea and Coffee in Dickens, and the YouTube-ification of Christianity

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Prufrock: Millennials on Pilgrimages, a Short History of Bookshelves, and the Tremulous Hand

Micah Mattix · February 7, 2018

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Prufrock: Keeping up with Acronyms, Books in Cuba, and Religion Against Tyranny

Micah Mattix · February 6, 2018

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Prufrock: The Decline of English, Lost Books, and in Praise of Suburbs

Micah Mattix · February 5, 2018

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Prufrock: In Praise of University Presses, the Art Market Bubble, and the Art of Unpacking Books

Micah Mattix · February 2, 2018

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Prufrock: The Other Gender Gap, How the Industrial Revolution Changed Sailing, and the Littlehampton Libels Revisited

Micah Mattix · February 1, 2018

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Prufrock: Ursula K. Le Guin's Space Rock Opera, Andy Warhol's Catholicism, and the Misremembered John Selden

Micah Mattix · January 31, 2018

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Prufrock: Why Maryland Loves Jousting, Living in the Coldest City in the World, and Edgar Allan Poe's Hoax

Micah Mattix · January 30, 2018

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Prufrock: Rare Turkey Calls, Muriel Spark at 100, and the Real Charles I

Micah Mattix · January 29, 2018

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Prufrock: Conservative Magazines Today, Johnny Cash's Visit to Folsom Prison at 50, and in Praise of Pen and Paper

Micah Mattix · January 26, 2018

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Prufrock: The Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry, When Israeli Prisoners Translated 'The Hobbit,' and the French 'Anti-Keynes'

Micah Mattix · January 25, 2018

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Prufrock: 'White Trash Cooking' Revisited, Cruel Birdwatchers, and the Most Expensive Book at the Bottom of the Atlantic

Micah Mattix · January 24, 2018

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Prufrock: The Art of Charles I, in Defense of the Electoral College, and the Literary Intrigues of Putin's One-Time Chief of Staff

Micah Mattix · January 23, 2018

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Prufrock: In Defense of the Western Tradition, Joyless Germans, and Isaac Babel's Grim Wit

Micah Mattix · January 22, 2018

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