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Daniel Mendelsohn on Madame Bovary and Italian Opera Daniel Mendelsohn resumes his “Drama Queens” seminars starting on January 7, with a three-part series on Madame Bovary and Italian operas; and then conducts a final series, on twentieth-century theater, starting on January 28. New York Review Seminars may be purchased as gifts—just enter the recipient’s name and email address during checkout, and let them know you’ve thought of them this holiday season. We’ll notify the recipient prior to the start of each seminar as a reminder! “Drama Queens”
Daniel Mendelsohn on Madame Bovary and Italian Opera
Three weekly sessions, starting this Wednesday, January 7, 2026 The nineteenth century produced some of the greatest and most memorable heroines, both on the page and on the stage—particularly the operatic stage, where the various types of femininity established by the Greeks, from virginal innocence to violent vengefulness, were given a powerful new mode of expression. During the course of this seminar, we will do a close reading of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, while each of the three sessions will also be twined around an opera that further explored cultural models of femininity: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Three one-hour sessions: January 7, 14, and 21. All sessions will start at 7 PM EST. “Drama Queens”
Daniel Mendelsohn on Twentieth-Century Theater
Three weekly sessions, starting January 28, 2026 The final installment of our seminar will examine four masterpieces of American theater, each of which showcases one or more unforgettable heroines: the recovering morphine addict Mary Tyrone in Eugene O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night; the faded Southern belle Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie; the delusional yet noble Blanche DuBois of Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; and the harrowingly damaged protagonist of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? These plays suggests that well into the 20th century, the archetypes established by the Greeks continued to be useful for male playwrights; the question that confronts us, as we end our series, is why? Four one-hour sessions: January 28, February 4, 11, and 18. All sessions will start at 7 PM EST. Marilynne Robinson on The Bible The New York Review is pleased to announce two new seminars on the Bible, hosted by contributor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Marilynne Robinson. Her first series on the Old Testament begins on March 2, and her second series on the New Testament starts on May 6. The course as a whole is intended to draw attention to the fact that the Scriptures are, whatever else, a very great literature. Considering their importance to Western Civilization, it is remarkable how vulnerable they are now to misuse and ridicule. Over centuries writers returned to these texts, confident of finding a high order of meaning in them, as great writers have done for centuries after the canon was closed. This is far too extraordinary a phenomenon to be left to cynical use or to neglect. Marilynne Robinson on The Old Testament
Four weekly sessions, starting March 2, 2026 Each week will focus on a theme or book from the Old Testament: Creation, Law, Psalms, and Prophecy. Four one-hour sessions: March 2, 9, 16, and 23. All sessions will start at 7 PM EST. Marilynne Robinson on The New Testament
Four weekly sessions, starting May 6, 2026 Each week will focus on a book from the New Testament: Luke, Acts, First Corinthians, and John. Four one-hour sessions: May 6, 13, 20, and 27. All sessions will start at 7 PM EST. You are receiving this message because you signed up
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