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Editor's noteThe Editors are pleased to announce the eleventh annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. The winner will receive $3,000 and the winning manuscript will be published by St. Augustine's Press.
June 2010Volume 28, Number 10Departments Poems Reconsiderations Theater On Lucy Prebble’s Enron, The Frog and Peach Theatre Company's Macbeth, The Maids at Studio 660 & Norm Foster's The Love List. Art by Karen Wilkin On “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917” at the Art Institute of Chicago. by Marco Grassi On “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” at the Morgan Library & Musuem. by Mario Naves On “Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb” at the Jewish Museum, New York. by Nola Tully On “Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. by James Panero On “Patricia Watwood: Portraits 2010” at Open Source, Brooklyn, “Michael Klein: Recent Paintings” at Arcadia Gallery & “Paul Resika: Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art. Music On Dorothea Roschmann & Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall, Carter Brey with the New York Philharmonic, Ricardo Muti’s moodiness, Jonathan Bliss at the 92st Y, an afternoon of Ravel at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Armida, Lulu, Tosca & The Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera, & a Stravinsky festival led by Valery Gergiev. The Media Verse Chronicle On Wait by C. K. Williams, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland, Simplify Me When I'm Dead by Keith Douglas, Rain by Don Paterson, White Egrets by Derek Walcott & Nox by Anne Carson Notebook June 2010Volume 28, Number 10Books 
on Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (The Public Square) by Martha C. Nussbaum reviewed by Gary Saul Morson 
On The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, by Keith Windschuttle 
on Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by Amir Alexander reviewed by Martin Gardner 
on The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner,Steven Rendall reviewed by Brian C. Anderson 
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