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June 2008Volume 26, Number 10  

Notes & Comments

Speaking up for the Fifties

On the roots of the Sixties.

A note of thanks

On the generosity of our patrons.

Features

The Sixties at 40

by Peter Collier

On 1968, four decades later.

A literary education

by Joseph Epstein

On being well-versed in literature.

William Wilberforce: the great emancipator

by Keith Windschuttle

On William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague.

Sleuthing Conan Doyle

by Alexandra Mullen

On The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Andrew Lycett and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters edited by Jon Lellenberg.

Letter from France

A tale of two countries

by Anthony Daniels

On England, France, and Ruskinian delusions.

Dance

Vaults & waters: the Kirov at City Center

by Laura Jacobs

On the Kirov Ballet in Manhattan.

Theater

LuPone's turn

by Brooke Allen

On Gypsy at the St James Theatre, Boeing-Boeing at the Longacre Theater, and The New Century at Lincoln Center.

Art

Greenberg & Rosenberg

by Karen Wilkin

On "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976" at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On "Catherine Murphy: New Work" at Knoedler & Company, New York, "Walton Ford" at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, and "Jacob Collins—Rediscovering the American Landscape: The Eastholm Project" at Hirschl & Adler, New York.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the 2007-2008 season.

The Media

Getting it

by James Bowman

On being part of the small exclusive circle of people who "get it."

Verse Chronicle

Valentine's Day massacre

by William Logan

On Valentines by Ted Kooser, Fifty-Two by Melissa Green, The Wave-Maker by Elizabeth Spires, Seven Notebooks by Campbell McGrath, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe, and Sea Change by Jorie Graham.

Books

Up in smoke

by Andrew Roberts

On Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker.

The great & the good

by Daniel Mahoney

On The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics by Robert Faulkner.

Up from liberalism

by James Piereson

On Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism by Alfred S. Regnery.

Off with the motley

by R. J. Stove

On Leoncavallo: Life and Works by Konrad Dryden.

What Wolff knows

by Stefan Beck

On Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff.

Shorter notice

by Jonathan Leaf

On George Washington on Leadership by Richard Brookhiser.

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