… Where Culture Is a Pleasure – The American Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
There’s no one better suited to write about the ideal of culture and its value — meaning high culture in the Matthew Arnold “best that has been thought and said” way — than Epstein, a man of great learning who wears his learning lightly, and can mobilize it in the most non-academic way to put light, energy, and grace into observations on the work of Marcel Proust or reflections on the pleasures of sharing ones’ life with a cat.I have already downloaded the Kindle version. Epstein, for me, is always a must-read.
Link goes to the front page, not the article. Here's the text for the link: https://spectator.org/where-culture-is-a-pleasure/
ReplyDeleteThank you for bringing this up. The link has been fixed.
ReplyDeleteI don’t get the ‘cult of Epstein’. Facile essays. Unrepentant homophobe.
ReplyDeleteWell, as someone who was once, by a gay colleague in The Inquirer newsroom, nominated an honorary homosexual, I can think I can safely claim to not be thought homophobic. So I think I can also forgive some unfortunate things Epstein said in an article written nearly 50 years ago, given that he has written so much else that I think is worthwhile.
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