Richard Selzer

May 7, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Roger Kimball |Deborah Solomon |Richard Selzer |Roger Scruton

Nonfiction:Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers, circa 1420–1620, edited by Maria Aresin & Thomas Dalla Costa (Ad Ilissum): From Vasari we learn that Venetian painters prized colore (color) above disegno (drawing or design). It’s an appealing notion (and who, looking at the work of Titian, would dare disagree?), but one that, as Maria Aresin and Thomas Dalla Costa argue in a new book, “can no longer be upheld in the light of modern scholarship. . . .

May 6, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Roger Kimball |Richard Selzer |Deborah Solomon |Roger Scruton

As Yefim Bronfman walked to the piano on Sunday afternoon, I thought, “This is one of the most familiar sights in New York”—or the classical-music division of New York. Over the last twenty-five years, has there been a more frequent soloist in this city (whether in concertos or recitals)? Tied with Bronfman, perhaps, is his friend and fellow pianist Emanuel Ax.Bronfman played a recital in Carnegie Hall yesterday. It began with Schubert: his Sonata in A minor, D. 784.

Mar 30, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Richard Selzer |John Crowley |D. Graham Burnett

After more than thirty-five years teaching and practicing surgery at Yale University, Richard Selzer has for the last two decades pursued a second career as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, drawing on his long experience in medicine for the body of his work. Among his fifteen books are Mortal Lessons and The Doctor Stories, and two released this year, Knife Song Korea and Letters to a Best Friend, the latter a collection of letters with Peter Josyph.