CRITIQUE
September 2015
Leonardo is seen as the presiding genius of his age, but his drawings reveal a reassuringly human artist
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July/August 2015
Commercial art forms may yet save the Western tradition from its propensity to self-destruction
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June 2015
Composers who try to create culture in a vacuum will struggle to be heard by a hostile public
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May 2015
A new biography of the American novelist presents a comic genius who never claimed to be exemplary
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