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October 2009Volume 28, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

Features

The prophet of personal space

by Anthony Daniels

D. H. Lawrence reconsidered.

Never such innocence again

by Andrew Stuttaford

The Boy's Own Paper remembered.

The sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens

by William Logan

On the poet's place in the American Pantheon & the new Selected Poems, edited by John N. Serio.

Sentimental journeys

by Pat Rogers

On The Letters of Laurence Sterne, edited by Melvyn New and Peter de Voogd.

Poems

Dance

Blossom time at ABT

by Laura Jacobs

On the American Ballet Theater, the New York City Ballet & Veronika Part.

Theater

Luck of the Irish

by Kevin D. Williamson

On After Luke & When I Was God at the Irish Repertory Theater, New York, A Lifetime of Burning at e59e, New York & The Bacchae in Central Park.

Art

Augustus Saint-Gaudens & the American monument

by Eric Gibson

On “Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

Vermeer & Monet at the Met & MoMA

by Karen Wilkin

On "Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note

by Marco Grassi

On "Time Will Tell: Ethics & Choices in Conservation" at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On “George Grosz: The Years in America: 1933–1958” at David Nolan Gallery; “Mel Kendrick: Markers” in Madison Square Park; “Conrad Marca-Relli: The New York Years 1945–1967” at Knoedler & Company; “Leon Polk Smith” at Washburn Gallery; “Carole Feuerman: Swimmers, Bathers & Nudes”at Jim Kempner Fine Art & “Color-Time-Space” at Lohin Geduld and Janet Kurnatowski Galleries.

Music

Salzburg chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the 2009 Salzburg Festival.

The Media

Our diminished debate

by James Bowman

On loss of manners in civil affairs.

Books

Letters

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