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by James Bowman | Nov 05, 2009 06:05 PM by Roger Kimball | from Pajamas Media by Callie Siskel | Nov 05, 2009 10:44 AM Most populargo to the complete list »November 2009Volume 28, Number 3Notes & comments On Islamist pressure in New Haven. Features Russia before the mirror: reflections on 1989 On the realities of cultural transformation in Russia. On the intellectual irresponsibility of Soviet sympathizers. November 2009Volume 28, Number 3Departments Poems Fiction Chronicle by Stefan Beck On The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker; Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers; Homer & Langley, by E. L. Doctorow; and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Theater On Jude Law in Hamlet, the Atlantic Theater Company's Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Collaborative Stages's House of Yes, and The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb. Art by Karen Wilkin On “Watteau, Music, and Theater” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. by Marco Grassi On "The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy," Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont. On "In Pursuit of Knowledge: 600 Years of Leipzig University," The Grolier Club, New York. by Mario Naves On "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction" at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. by James Panero On “Sam Francis: 1953–1959”at L&M Arts; “Jay Milder: Recent Work” at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “Abby Leigh: The Sleeper’s Eye” at Betty Cuningham Gallery and “Silver Anniversary: 25 Photographs, 1835 to 1914” at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs. Music On the Europeanization of the Metropolitan Opera, Alan Gilbert's New York Philharmonic, Paul Jacobs at Juiliard, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The Media Notebook Bartók, Parry & Lord: a flawed legacy Debunking the myth of "Homeric" Balkan folk songs. November 2009Volume 28, Number 3Books 
on The Belly of Paris (Modern Library Classics) by Emile Zola,Mark Kurlansky reviewed by Brooke Allen 
on The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War by John V. Fleming reviewed by David Pryce-Jones 
on The Only Super Power: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism by Paul Hollander reviewed by Costin Alamariu 
on Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin (Continuum Literary Studies) by Richard Palmer reviewed by Denis Donoghue |
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