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Arts and Letters
Arts and Letters
by | Jan 9, 2026

On a social media site the other day, someone posted a single sentence to the effect that he’d tried once…

by | Dec 25, 2025

I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward…

by | Nov 27, 2025

Arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, Dagestani Khabib Nurmagomedov defined his strategy in the octagon: “I take people…

by | Nov 15, 2025

It’s another milestone in the onward march of the bots — country music’s top song in the U.S. last week…

by | Nov 8, 2025

I have just finished re-reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, on the life and times of…

by | Nov 7, 2025

In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see…

by | Oct 25, 2025

The other day, someone asked me why I thought the great epic by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, no longer seems…

by | Oct 24, 2025

In one of his Spectator A.M. letters this week, our Dan Flynn noted that Taylor Swift occupies eight of the top ten…

by | Oct 16, 2025

I’ve been familiar with at least a few of Vernon Duke’s songs — among the most famous of them being…

by | Oct 9, 2025

It’s been said of him that he straddles magical figuration and surrealism, and I’m not sure whether that description applies…

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