Wednesday in Arts & Letters
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
A POET DURING WARTIME
Czeslaw Milosz wrote some of the finest poetry about the war and its destructive aftermath in central Europe, ANNE APPLEBAUM writes. A newly translated collection of essays is in some sense Milosz’s attempt to reconcile everything he knows about literature and humanity with the total destruction he was witnessing.
A LIFE OF BABEL
Jerome Charyn’s new biography of Isaac Babel, CARL ROLLYSON writes, ought to take its place among the genre’s more innovative works.
BUSY CHRISTMAS EVE?
A new production of Alan Ackbourne’s ‘Absurd Person Singular’ opens on Broadway.
