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America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life
- Harry Mount, the London Telegraph

September 2011Volume 30, Number 1  

Notes & Comments

The New Criterion at 30

Announcing our anniversary season.

The Hamilton follies, cont'd

On the ivory sepulcher.

Features

America resumed: 9/11 remembered

by Michael J. Lewis

The first entry in our series "Future tense: the lessons of culture in an age of upheaval."

Beauty locked out

by Alexander McCall Smith

On the role of the positive in fiction.

What's wrong with our universities?

by James Piereson

On the ailing state of higher education.

G. K. Chesterton: master of rejuvenation

by Roger Kimball

On the vitality of the Jolly Journalist's work.

The bright ghosts of antiquity

by John Talbot

On the enduring legacy of the Loeb Library.

Stephen Crane's strange singing

by Michael Dirda

On the poetry of Stephen Crane.

The ruler of law

by Andrew C. McCarthy

On “justice” in the age of Obama.

Pound notes

by Denis Donoghue

On Ezra Pound's correspondence with his parents.

Blunder at the Biennale

by James Panero

On the Department of State's diplomatic flop at the Venice Biennale.

The pious provincial

by Marco Grassi

On the sublime artistry of Lorenzo Lotto.

Crooked lines

by Eric Ormsby

On Paul Claudel's lasting influence in French letters.

These are the poems, folks

by David Yezzi

On the relationship between poetry and joke-telling.

Poems

Letter from Provence

Points of View

by Anthony Daniels

Reconsidering the power of photography.

Manners & morals

The past is a foreign country

by David Pryce-Jones

On the politicization of historiography.

Theater

Shakespeare in the dark

by Kevin D. Williamson

On the RSC's Romeo and Juliet, Sleep No More & Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.

Web Special

The Steins & Cones collect

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

Exhibition note

by Christie Davies

On "The Vorticists" at Tate Britain.

Exhibition note

by Leann Davis Alspaugh

On "Kurt Schwitters: Color & Collage" at Houston's Menil Collection.

Exhibition note

by Alexander Nazaryan

On "The American Style: Colonial Revival & the Modern Metropolis" at the Museum of the City of New York.

Exhibition note

by James Panero

On "Simon Dinnerstein: The Fulbright Triptych & Selected Works” at The German Consulate General, New York.

Music

“Musical love letters to God”

by Jay Nordlinger

On Bruckner & the Lincoln Center Festival.

The Media

The incivility of civility

by James Bowman

On the intellectual vanity of our public culture.

Books

Complexe, mais pas compliqué

by James Penrose

on Ravel by Roger Nichols

Demographic dilemmas

by John Derbyshire

on Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl

Nature's nationalists

by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

on Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf

At long last love

by Emily Esfahani Smith

on Love: A History by Simon May

Grim countenances

by Daniel J. Mahoney

on Gulag Voices: An Anthology (Annals of Communism Series) by Anne Applebaum,Jane Ann Miller

True minds

by James Como

on C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile by C. S. Lewis,A. T. Reyes

A failure to communicate

by Jeffrey Greggs

on Caligula: A Biography by Aloys Winterling,Deborah Lucas Schneider,Glenn W. Most,Paul Psoinos

Notebook

The last of a magical breed

by David Mason

I.M. Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1915–2011.

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