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October 2008

Volume 27, Number 2

Notes & comments

The Rosenbergs: case closed

On the couple executed for treason in 1953.

An inspired choice at the Met

On the newly announced successor to Philippe de Montebello.

Features

Prague: spring in winter

by John O'Sullivan

On the fortieth anniversary of the Prague Spring.

Hazlitt's philocaption: a very child in love

by John Derbyshire

On the writer's "inordinate love for another."

Churchill's friends & rivals

by Robert Messenger

On the great prime minister's relationships with David Lloyd George and with Gandhi.

Auden's cheery bishop

by Jeremy Bernstein

On Ernest William Barnes, the Anglican Bishop of Birmingham.

October 2008

Volume 27, Number 2

Departments

Poems


Letter from Europe

Continental divide

by Paul Hollander

On the view of America from Europe.


Theater

Joys of summer

by Brooke Allen

On Hair at the Delacorte Theater, Noël Coward in Two Keys at the Berkshire Theater Festival, and Buffalo Gal at Primary Stages.


Art

Morandi at the Met

by Karen Wilkin

On "Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibition note

by Christie Davies

On "Wyndham Lewis Portraits" at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On "The Etchings of Giorgio Morandi" at Pace Master Prints, New York, and "Giorgio Morandi: Paintings and Works on Paper" at Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.


Music

Salzburg chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the 2008 Salzburg Festival.


The Media

The choice of Sarah Palin

by James Bowman

On the Republican vice-presidential candidate and the feminists.


Notebook

I.M. Shusha Guppy, 1935-2008

by Ben Downing

Remembering the Persian expatriate and London editor of the Paris Review.

October 2008

Volume 27, Number 2

Books

Champlain's Dream

French & Indian peace

on Champlain's Dream

by David Hackett Fischer

reviewed by Walter McDougall

How Fiction Works

The art of reality

on How Fiction Works

by James Wood

reviewed by Paul Dean

As deep as England

On Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid.

by Richard Tillinghast

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism

Sacred monsters

on Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism

by Michael Burleigh

reviewed by Andrew Stuttaford

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Dispiriting

on Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

by Rob Riemen

reviewed by Joseph Bottum

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Whitman's spell

on Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples

by Michael Robertson

reviewed by Thomas M. Disch

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iPods & nimrods

on The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

by Mark Bauerlein

reviewed by Liam Julian

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The family Lincoln

on The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage

by Daniel Mark Epstein

reviewed by Alexander Nazaryan

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