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- Maryliz on Visual Arts: Ambergris and Alchemy — A Pilgrimage to John Singer Sargent’s “Fumée d’Ambre Gris”
- Mark Favermann on Visual Arts Review: “Where’s Boston? 50 Years Later” — A City in Focus
- John Kaminski on Arts Feature: Mark Cutler and The Same Thing Project — Writing Songs Together
- Lucas Spiro on Book Review: “The Veiled Prophet” — The Pageantry of Reaction
- Debra Cash on Book Review: Beyond the Canon — How Cultural Authority Is Made
Arts Commentary: With Friends Like These — The New York Times Explains Why Criticism Matters
The important question the NYTBR Editors fail to ask is whether the traditional definition and values of literary criticism will survive in an age of ebooks and iPads. Is there a primal appetite for criticism? (Edith Wharton says there is, and I believe her.) How will the Internet shape our innate desire to compare, judge,…
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