Simon Schama is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. He has been an essayist and critic for The New Yorker since 1994, his art criticism winning the National Magazine Award in 1996.
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Titanic’s Wake
All walks of life teemed aboard the RMS Titanic—from dollar dukes to striving immigrants.... MORE
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A Dickens For Our Times
The novelist made masterpieces out of modern cruelties. MORE
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No Downers in Downton
Why have Americans fallen for a show that serves up snobbery by the bucketful? MORE
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How Hitchens Said Goodbye
He deployed against purveyors of unreasoned pieties. MORE
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Why You Should Care About Europe
As the economic crisis rages, leading British historian Simon Schama makes an impassioned plea:... MORE
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Rome, Reimagined
Robert Hughes's exhilarating new history gives us an Eternal City steeped in more than the legends... MORE
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The Shakespeare Shakedown
The new film ‘Anonymous’ says the Bard was a fraud. Don’t buy it. MORE
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Painter in the Flesh
Eye of the hawk: Lucian Freud was a profoundly confrontational artist, assaulting his subjects in... MORE
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The League of Fallen Idols
What the fate of Roger Clemens tells us about our craving for heroes. MORE
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Out, Damned Tweet!
Shakespeare's lessons in eloquence have never been more important. MORE
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Death of a Modernist Master
Cy Twombly’s art is widely appreciated.... MORE
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The Founding Fathers, Unzipped
The Constitution’s framers were flawed like today’s politicians, we should stop embalming them in... MORE
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Polanski's Brilliant Comeback
Simon Schama says Roman Polanski’s new movie The Ghost Writer—starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan... MORE
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No More Mr. Eloquent
Obama’s inaugural speech had few rhetorical highs.... MORE
