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- Sunday, July 30, 2017 Sophie's Painting My cousin Sophie is dying. She is ninety. It seems likely that she will die today, and I hurry to write those words to use the present tense one last time. We were with her, all of us, at different moments in the last couple of weeks. My ... more»
- Friday, May 5, 2017 Unsteady Hands The prose fragment is a form capable of kindness. After I thought of that sentence, I thought of reading Hervé Guibert again, with students, this quarter. In his use, the fragment has so much discretion all along its edges. We all ... more»
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- Sunday, August 6, 2017 Pessoa & Cavafy on the RadioRadio Producer Will Duchon presents a program called "Words & Music" on Friday Evening Classics on WMNR Fine Arts Radio. A few weeks ago the segment grew out of my essay "Lost Cities," and includes excerpts of that essay, together with poems by Fernando ... more»
- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Conversation with Robert BirnbaumA couple of years ago, when my biography of Bernard Berenson came out, I had a long chat with Robert Birnbaum of Our Man in Boston and Identity Theory. The conversation was recently transcribed and posted here:https://ourmaninboston.wordpress.com/201 ... more»
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- Gold, Golden, Gilded, GlitteringThis essay, on a long complex history of overlap in financial and artistic inventions, appeared in The Believer in the Nov / Dec 2012 issue. ... more»
- Looking at PoussinThis essay, on the occasion of the Metropolitan Museum's Poussin Exhibition, "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," February 12-May 11, 2008, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Threepenny Review. ... more»