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Notes & Comments On the real consequences of "The Program Era." The death of a holiday at Brown. On bureaucratic rules & regulations. Features The cultural contradictions of J. M. Keynes On the insights & limitations of the influential economist. Potempkin prisons: inside the Museum of the Gulag On Russia's continuing inability to confront its Stalinist past. On the half-century tenure of William H. Pierson, Lane Faison & Whitney Stoddard in the art department at Williams College. Poems Fiction Chronicle by Stefan Beck On How to Sell, by Clancy Martin; Lowboy, by John Wray; Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead; and How It Ended: New & Collected Stories, by Jay McInerney. Theater Art Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese in Boston by Karen Wilkin On “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, on view through August 16, 2009. by James Panero On "Picasso: Mosqueteros" at the Gagosian Gallery, New York, on view through June 6, 2009 & “Edward Minoff” at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, on view from May 14 through May 28, 2009 Music On Maris Janson & the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras and André Previn's 80th Birthday at Carnegie Hall; La sonambula, Rusalka, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, & The Elixir of Love at the Metropolitan Opera; and the all-Handel night with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall. The Media Superfluous kings for messengers by James Bowman On the lack of true greatness in the celebrity era. Books On Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin. On Masters & Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West , by Andrew Roberts. by Conrad Black On Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights, by Ezra Levant. On World War II Writings & The Sweet Science & Other Writings , by A. J. Liebling. 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. |
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