The impossibility of being Oscar Wilde, visiting Michelangelo, Bauhaus in Mexico

New on nybooks.com: Oscar Wilde’s last years, looking at Michelangelo, Josef Albers in Mexico, a comic Hamlet, and what Juan Rulfo did for Latin American literature. Sponsored by [Hirmer Publishers]( [The Impossibility of Being Oscar]( John Banville He had, throughout his life, talked away too much of his talent. [On the Deployment of Simile to Understand Good Marriages]( Vona Groarke Clothes stiffening into position overnight on chairs or on the backs of chairs— that is like a marriage too and so is the rain crowding the window so hard I can hardly see through […]( Also in the current issue: Anthony Appiah on Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa, Anna Deavere Smith on Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Charles Glass on Syria’s new normal, Glen Fukushima on Japan and the United States, Negar Azimi on the paintings of M.F. Husain, Eamon Duffy on Isaac Newton, and more NYR Daily [A Sketched Guide to Michelangelo]( Liana Finck A visit to the Met’s blockbuster exhibition [Bauhaus in Mexico]( J. Hoberman Not long after arriving in the United States, Josef and Anni Albers went looking for America and found it… in Mexico. [Hamlet, My Prince of Pigs]( Sarah Boxer A pared-down Hamlet is a funny Hamlet. Here are a few scenes from my tragicomic. [Juan Rulfo: Immortal Scribe of the Dead]( Ariel Dorfman He changed the course of Latin American fiction. The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](