Veronese Preserv’d
To the Editors: In my review of Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast [NYR, October 21], which focuses on the looting of Veronese’s The...
Loopholes for Kleptocrats
On April 3, 2016, journalism colleagues around the world and I broke the story of the Panama Papers, 11.5 million documents leaked from the files of...
Lost Murals in Hollywood
To the Editors: Here’s some additional information about Paul Revere Williams, whose work Martin Filler discussed in “Hollywood’s Master Builder” [NYR, October 21]. In early April...
Bard of New Jersey
August Kleinzahler’s fourteenth collection of poems, Snow Approaching on the Hudson, begins with the death of Elvis and ends with a recollection of his teacher, the...
Gibbon & Ethiopia
To the Editors: In “The Glories of Aksum” [NYR, October 7], Peter Brown quotes Edward Gibbon’s dictum, in chapter 47 of the Decline and Fall of...
‘And I One of Them’
More written about than read, more notorious than known, the British heiress Nancy Cunard has much to tell us and warn us against. She was born...
Family Liturgies
There was “nothing for him” in England. “There were no ‘Homes for Heroes.’ Oh no. No ‘Homes for Heroes.’” My grandmother said this indignantly. And if...
Nazis on the Run
In the summer of 2020 a court in Hamburg found Bruno Dey, a ninety-three-year-old former member of the SS Totenkopfsturmbann (Death’s Head Battalion) and a guard...
Our Trojan Moment
The Women of Troy is the second novel in Pat Barker’s trilogy-in-progress about the Trojan War. Its predecessor, The Silence of the Girls (2018), was set...
