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- John O’Sullivan

May 2013Volume 31, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

The case of Bowdoin College

A new report paints a devastating portrait of the current state of college education.

Features

Starving in China

by Arthur Waldron

The great famine before China's Cultural Revolution killed millions. Yang Jisheng took it upon himself to make sure the world knew about it.

A Burke for our time

by Charles Hill

He was an eighteenth-century Irish statesman, but Edmund Burke still has plenty to say today.

Getting right with Niebuhr

by James Nuechterlein

Reinhold Niebuhr was a public intellectual and a theologian who still has a deep influence on both the right and the left.

Good company

by Paul Dean

Shakespeare's actors brought his plays to life, but what kind of relationship did he have with them?

Poems

Reconsiderations

Eleanor Clark's Rome

by Emily Esfahani Smith

Rome was a magical place for Eleanor Clark, who shares her connection with the city in Rome and a Villa.

Fiction Chronicle

Fifty million fables

by Stefan Beck

Reviews of Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho, Fight Song by Joshua Mohr, The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte, and The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud.

Dance

Le Sacre turns 100

by Laura Jacobs

A look back on Le Sacre du printemps on the centenary of Stravinsky's famous ballet.

Theater

Manhattan Projects

by Kevin D. Williamson

Coverage of Macbeth, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Hands on a Hardbody.

Art

Impressionism à la mode

by Karen Wilkin

On “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibition note

by Christie Davies

On "Man Ray: Portraits” at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

On "The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913” at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On “Dana Gordon & John Mendelsohn: New Paintings” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, “Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, “Fedele Spadafora: New Paintings” at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, and “John Dubrow: Recent Work” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On recent performances, including Stephanie Blythe, Francesca da Rimini, the New York Philharmonic, the Artemis Quartet, Sol Gabetta, the Škampa Quartet, and more.

The Media

Speak no evil

by James Bowman

The fallout from Britain's phone-hacking scandal has now led to government regulation of the media and an ominous future for free speech in the West.

Books

Mr. Media

by Conrad Black

on Roger Ailes: Off Camera by Zev Chafets

Bork, remembered

by Andrew C. McCarthy

on Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General by Robert H. Bork

You’ve got mail

by Ben Downing

on Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet by Mr. Frederic Raphael

Household names

by Alexandra Mullen

on Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature by Alastair Fowler

Letters

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