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Most populargo to the complete list »September 2008Volume 27, Number 1Notes & comments Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008 On the death of the great Russian writer. On the crisis in the Caucasus. On the new British periodical. Features The busybody: the Duc de Saint-Simon remembers On the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, newly translated by Lucy Norton. by Brian C. Anderson, Adam D. Thierer On the lurking threat to the freedom of the airwaves. Lessons of the long-distance runner On the impact and errors of Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. On David Lebedoff's The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War. September 2008Volume 27, Number 1Departments Poems Dance by Laura Jacobs On Alexei Ratmansky, Rabbit and Rogue at American Ballet Theatre, and Jupiter Symphony at Pennsylvania Ballet. Theater by Brooke Allen On Of Thee I Sing at Bard Summerscape, and The Understudy & Broke-ology at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Art by Karen Wilkin On "Take Your TIme: Olafur Eliasson" at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, "The New York City Waterfalls" along the East River, and other public art in the city. by Peter Pettus On "Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness and the Art of Painting Softly" at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. On "From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete 3000–1100 B.C." at the Onassis Cultural Center, New York. Music On Showboat at Carnegie Hall, "Summertime Classics" with the New York Philharmonic, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival at Mannes, "Pedals and Pumps: A Festival of Organ Divas" at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. The Media Notebook Letters September 2008Volume 27, Number 1Books 
on Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray reviewed by James Piereson 
on Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman reviewed by James Piereson 
on The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis reviewed by Stephen Schwartz 
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