October 7, 2013
A Note on Realism
The realist novel, for reasons I’m still figuring out, gains in power from a certain excess and messiness. This is why Chekhov and Turgenev write excellent novels, but nothing […]
November 15, 2012
In Which the Classics are Canvases: Matt Kish on Illustrating Melville and Conrad
Matt Kish’s project to create one image for every page of Moby-Dick takes its place in a long pantheon of artworks as veritably obsessed with Melville as Ahab was with […]