One of the nice things about the Internet is that you don’t have to go to museums any more. They come to you. Well, maybe not entirely, but doesn’t “Woman Looking at Herself in a Mirror” (1805) from Japanese master Katsushika Hokusai look terrific? There’s a lot more at the New York Review of Books,…
Tag: Christopher Benfry
O mores O tempores, Lit Crit division
Over at the New Republic, Christopher Benfry has a nice piece on T. S. Eliot, containing the following passage: Religion provided a refuge from domestic disorder. “Born & bred in the very heart of Boston Unitarianism,” as he put it, Eliot had recently experienced a spiritual awakening—friends witnessed him falling to his knees before Michelangelo’s…