Darwin’s Audubon by Gerald Weissmann: When Science and Art Remember They Were Never Strangers
Gerald Weissmann was the kind of man who read Audubon’s watercolors the way most people…
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy Edited by Patrick Gardiner — The Century That Asked What We Are and Got Three Different Answers
Three men who never shared a dinner table, never corresponded, and would have despised each…
What Ina Corinne Brown Saw — and What She Couldn’t
Few books reveal the architecture of their moment as honestly as Ina Corinne Brown’s Understanding…
The Age of Access by Jeremy Rifkin — A Review
Jeremy Rifkin has a habit of being right too early. The Age of Access, published…
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of the Typographic Man — Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan published The Gutenberg Galaxy in 1962, and the world mostly wasn’t ready for…
The Life of Wagner by Ernest Newman — Greatness and Monstrousness in the Same Skin
Few figures in the history of Western art invite such contradictory feelings as Richard Wagner….
