The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness By Mike Jay Four Walls Eight Windows. 306 pp. $24 On Dec. 30, 1796, Britain's House of Commons convened to debate the ...
Thunderclap, by Laura Cumming (Scribner). This memoir of artistic appreciation is centered largely on seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, but focusses particularly on two artists, one Dutch, one not: ...
A patient lies in a hospital bed in the neurological ward, his head wrapped in bandages. He’s just suffered a major trauma to the brain. The injury has wiped out the region that controls motion in his ...