Fortnightly 186

Back after its holidays, The Fortnightly today features Vincenzo Latronico’s smart new novel Perfection (superbly translated by Sophie Hughes), Isabel Colegate’s 1980 novel The Shooting Party (a forerunner of Downton Abbey, but much better), Elizabeth Bishop, Carl Hendrick on deep reading, Sienese painting of the fourthteenth century, Maryanne Wolf and Rebecca Winthrop on schools in the tech deluge, Jason Gulya and Paul Mathews on using AI in an evidenced-based way, Emma Turner on analogue teaching, Robert Caro and much more.

186: A dreamy divagation by Julian Girdham

Vincenzo Latronico, Isabel Colegate, Carl Hendrick on reading, Sienese painting, Elizabeth Bishop, Maryanne Wolf & Rebecca Winthrop, Robert Caro and more.

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