The Pure Radiance of the Past
The BBC series Wolf Hall is as beautifully cut, fitted, embroidered, and bejeweled as the heavy, intimidating garments of the Tudor nobility.
Martha Bayles is the film and TV critic for The Claremont Review of Books and the author of two books: Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad, and Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music; and a regular columnist for The American Interest. Since 2003 she has taught in the Arts & Sciences Honors Program at Boston College.
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