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The Washington Post: was anyone really surprised? by Roger Kimball | Jul 02, 2009 10:31 PM by James Bowman | Jul 02, 2009 05:01 PM by Michael Weiss | Jul 01, 2009 03:39 PM Most populargo to the complete list »June 2009Volume 27, Number 10Notes & comments Features by Marco Grassi On the restoration of the Madonna del Cardellino at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. June 2009Volume 27, Number 10Departments Poems Manners & morals Theater Art by Karen Wilkin On "Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Musuem of Modern Art, New York. On "Second Empire Paris: History and Modernity" at Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. by James Panero On Op Art, Gabriele Evertz at Metaphor Gallery, James Little at June Kelly Gallery & Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld Gallery. Music On Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Abbey Simon, Magdalena Kožená, and Christopher Prégardien & Michael Gees at Alice Tully Hall, Ricardo Muti with the New York Philharmonic; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, René Pape, and Pierre Boulez with the Staatskappelle Berlin at Carnegie Hall; Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock & Jonathan Manson at Zankel Hall; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera. The Media Verse Chronicle On Ballistics by Billy Collins; Selected Poems by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler; Substrate by Jim A. Powell; The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt; Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove; and It Is Daylight by Arda Collins. Notebook Letters June 2009Volume 27, Number 10Books 
on Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America #186) by Katherine Anne Porter,Darlene Harbour Unrue reviewed by Eric Ormsby 
on Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart reviewed by Stefan Beck 
on Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (The Public Square) by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse reviewed by David L Tubbs |
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