A kind reader sends David Bentley Hart’s column about Patrick Leigh Fermor on the occasion of his 2011 death. Excerpts: While he was serving as an intelligence officer in Nazi-occupied Crete ...

Upon entering the British Museum in the tidal wave of visitors intent on Rodin and the art of ancient Greece – the museum’s magnificent summer show – dive out left and head for Room 5, the free ...

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