Lucid essays from well before the 2008 meltdown captured the toxicity of the mortgage market and the investments known as collateralized debt obligations (stacks of debt).
Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Douglas Eklund and Mia Fineman, curators and scholars from the museum, have contributed the book's six learned and lucid essays, which focus on Evans's artistic development and distinct phases of his work as well as his lesser-known photographs.
This year has also seen the publication of At Helpston, a collection of lucid essays about John Clare (he is president of the John Clare Society), and every week for two decades he has written his "Word from Wormingford" diary for the Church Times.
She was, as well, a discerning reader and editor and a writer of graceful and lucid essays (including one published in this magazine earlier this year, "Betting Your Life") that derived from her experience, in her late thirties, of being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Immured in a Venetian style tower, a four-storey study atop 146 Hodge Road in the heart of white-picket-fenced Princeton, he had instead to content himself writing memoirs, reflections and lucid essays while waiting in vain for the "call" that would summon him back to the White House.
It seems that all the while he was writing lucid essays reflecting his classical scholarship for The New York Review of Books and other publications, Mendelsohn was doggedly tracking down relatives and survivors of Bolechow in search of memories of Shmiel, his wife and his daughters.
Some of these prickly ideas are addressed by John R. Grimes, the museum's curator of Native American art and culture, in a lucid catalog essay for "Uncommon Legacies".
As Anne Robbins argues in her lucid catalogue essay, until after the second world war Cézanne was essentially a private joy of the fortunate and discerning rather than a public possession.
