What I Learned from the Trifurcated Tragic Ending of Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini, and playwright Terrence McNally
An Open Letter to David Frum in Reply to His Botched "Romola" Review
The Memoirs of Two Folk Rock Giants Recast Their Public Façades
Commemorating the Commemoration of Sir Tom Stoppard
What Nick Hornby and Michael Frayn Taught Me About the Artistic Life
"The Queen of the Night" Channels the Grand Silliness of Opera
"God Help the Child" as Unofficial Sequel to "The Bluest Eye"
or, Has Timothée Chalamet Even Heard of the Verse Novel?
"The Fortune of the Rougons" Fails as Science But Triumphs as Political Satire
Grappling with irreconcilable tensions between "Emperor and Galilean"
Haruki Murakami at the Height of His Powers
Re-evaluating the Moral Compass of John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Pulphead"
Edward Dolnick's "The Clockwork Universe" Is Three Good Books with Four Bad Titles
Does Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Let a Transgender Colonialist Off the Hook?
Self-Revelation in the "Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov"
Edition Anxiety and Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
Revisiting Terrence McNally's Script for "The Lisbon Traviata"
A.S. Byatt Dramatizes the Tantalizing Drudgery of Research
"What We Can Know" Is a Damning Tell-all Biography of Our Reckless Generation
Literary Genius or Snake Oil Salesman?
The Impossibility of Connection in "The Voyage Out"
Longform Literary Intersections