Arts and Letters
Richard Wagner: A Life In Music By Martin Geck (University of Chicago Press, 423 pages, $35) THE JUNE 1980 issue…
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (Knopf, 752 pages, $37.50) Willa Cather’s literary…
Diaries 1924-1933: The Prodigal Son Serge Prokofiev, translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips (Cornell University Press, 1,125 pages, $60) Lina…
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century By Paul Kildea (Allen Lane, 665 pages, $45) THANKS TO THE CENTENARY…
As we begin the New Year, I find myself thinking about books that fill the conservative armamentarium for resisting the…
