The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors

The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors

Nonfiction: European Realities: Realism Movements of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, edited by Anja Richter and Florence Thurmes, in collaboration with Sina Tonn (Hirmer): Any readers of The New Criterion who made it to Chemnitz—the third-largest city in Saxony, which bore the unfortunate name Karl-Marx-Stadt between 1953 and 1990—last year could have enjoyed an intriguing exhibition of interwar European painting at the Kunstsammlung there. Those…