The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.
Notes & Comments On the Met's new galleries dedicated to art from the "Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Late South Asia." On linguistic timorousness off the Timor coast. On the costs of contemporary college education. Features A critical account of the "Chernyshevsky of individualism." On the godfather of modern conservatism & his intellectual legacy. Frost's notebooks: a disaster revisited On Harvard's half-baked reissue of The Notebooks of Robert Frost. Poems Reconsiderations The most hated man in New York On ”Lincoln and New York” at the New-York Historical Society, New York. Theater On Race & Oleanna by David Mamet, Ernest in Love at the Irish Repertory Theater & Jerk by Gisèle Vienne Art by Karen Wilkin On “Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan” at the Geementsmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands. On "The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life" at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. by James Panero On the Bushwick art scene, the "Inaugural Exhibition" at Storefront, “The Wells Street Gallery Revisited: Then and Now” at Lesley Heller Workspace, “Works on Paper” at Danese & “Jack Tworkov: True and False” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Music On Elektra, Carmen & Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Messiah at the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall & Anthony McGill at the Metropolitan Museum. The Media by James Bowman On the deleterious effects of political correctness on public policy. Books Notebook If you are a subscriber and you have not received an issue, or if an issue arrived damaged, please call 800-783-4903 or 973-627-5162 within 90 days of issue date for a replacement copy. |
|