Youth & Age

Mia Hansen-Løve’s new masterpiece; a 95-year-old conductor at the NY Phil; a recital by Jeremy Denk

I taught my first classes of the semester last week, and we spent much of the time reading, very slowly, a paragraph from Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day. It’s a particularly great paragraph, but pretty much any page of that book would demonstrate the quality I wanted to think about: the way, even though the information a paragraph can contain is …