Spring 2024

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More than 700 years after his death, Dante continues to shape the way we see the world. A new film examines the poet’s life and enduring work.

—Henry James Holiday, Dante Alighieri, Wikimedia

Spring 2024

Volume 45, Issue 2

The great Italian poet, in light of a new documentary

Two nineteenth-century glassworkers captured the elusive beauty of ocean life

Then he became the most controversial man in England

Confessing poetry

Mississippi

Missouri

How the auteur of screwball found and lost his way

How a pioneering Taiwanese chef helped usher in a new era of culinary television

In silent films and then talkies, this English actor embodied a graceful, literate masculinity