“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...
“Somehow, it exemplifies IP accretion while also telling a stylish, surprising, moving story about oppression, radicalization, violent resistance, and, in its second season, genocide.” —Gabriel Winslow-Yost on Andor
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The Revolution Will Not Be Star Wars | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
In 1982 the great French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette stopped publishing fiction. In almost a dozen novels over the previous decade, he had