Among the notorious Mitford sisters, “fascism was less an ideological belief than a catastrophic assertion of personality, a bid for attention in a family of extremophiles.” —Frances Wilson
The New York Review of Books
Tremendous Stickers | Frances Wilson
The Mitfords, a family of extremophiles, are characters that ultimately don’t translate to the screen.
“Veronese was always the most industrious of painters, his focus never flagging from the center of a canvas right out to its corners…. His work demands an equal intensity of concentration from his viewers.” —Ingrid D. Rowland
The New York Review of Books
The Gentleman of Verona | Ingrid D. Rowland
The majesty, serenity, and opulence of Paolo Veronese's paintings bolstered the myth of Venice's vibrancy at a time of social, political,...
David S. Reynolds on a new history of slavery, slaveholders, and enslaved people during the American Revolution
The New York Review of Books
The Contradictory Revolution | David S. Reynolds
Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of American Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it t...