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Notes & Comments Announcing our anniversary season. On the ivory sepulcher. Features America resumed: 9/11 remembered The first entry in our series "Future tense: the lessons of culture in an age of upheaval." G. K. Chesterton: master of rejuvenation On the vitality of the Jolly Journalist's work. by James Panero On the Department of State's diplomatic flop at the Venice Biennale. Poems Letter from Provence Manners & morals Theater On the RSC's Romeo and Juliet, Sleep No More & Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. Web Special by Karen Wilkin On “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde” & “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore.” Art On "Kurt Schwitters: Color & Collage" at Houston's Menil Collection. On "The American Style: Colonial Revival & the Modern Metropolis" at the Museum of the City of New York. by James Panero On "Simon Dinnerstein: The Fulbright Triptych & Selected Works” at The German Consulate General, New York. Music The Media Books on Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl on Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf on Gulag Voices: An Anthology (Annals of Communism Series) by Anne Applebaum,Jane Ann Miller by James Como on C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile by C. S. Lewis,A. T. Reyes on Caligula: A Biography by Aloys Winterling,Deborah Lucas Schneider,Glenn W. Most,Paul Psoinos 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. |
Levine Triumphs in Long-Awaited Return: http://t.co/CMokRPr31i Mon, 20 May 2013 Art: now with 30% more bodily fluids!—a sad look at the state of the art world by @rogerkimball: http://t.co/Eh1X9EorBw Mon, 20 May 2013 #Poetry from Joseph Harrion—Dr. Johnson rolls down a hill: http://t.co/VbRMabnaYi Mon, 20 May 2013 Lone Ranger Baffled Re: Sexual Assaults in the Military: http://t.co/MPhe72LTf7 Sat, 18 May 2013 At @CNNOpinion, @KevinNR talks about the great cell phone fiasco of 2013. In his words, "Yes, it was worth it.": http://t.co/bKNzeEucRj Fri, 17 May 2013 For more follow @newcriterion |