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Editor's note

The 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 2010

Volume 28, Number 10

Notes & comments

Everybody draws Mohammed

Cartooning for freedom of speech.

A word of thanks

We take a moment to express our gratitude to supporters and subscribers.

Features

Morals & the servile mind

by Kenneth Minogue

On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.

The shock philosopher

by Eric Ormsby

On the provocative thinking of Simone Weil.

Flaubert's simple heart

by Anthony Daniels

On a master's lesson in true tolerance.

The artful Dickens

by Alexandra Mullen

On Dickens's world & the world he created.

June 2010

Volume 28, Number 10

Departments

Poems


Reconsiderations

Rojas & the modern novel

by John Simon

A reappraisal of La Celestina.


Theater

A monster for our times

by Kevin D. Williamson

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

Matisse in Chicago

by Karen Wilkin

On “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Palladian lessons

by Marco Grassi

On “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” at the Morgan Library & Musuem.

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

On “Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Exhibition note

by Nola Tully

On “Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Gallery chronicle

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

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

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

The elite beat

by James Bowman

On new media elite.


Verse Chronicle

Trampling out the new vintage

by William Logan

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

Lord Acton's revolution

by Gerald J. Russello

On Lord Acton's Lectures on the French Revolution.

June 2010

Volume 28, Number 10

Books

Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (The Public Square)

Empathy with us

on Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (The Public Square)

by Martha C. Nussbaum

reviewed by Gary Saul Morson

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Two-headed Hitchens

on Hitch-22: A Memoir

by Christopher Hitchens

reviewed by Christopher Caldwell

Aboriginal sin?

On The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, by Keith Windschuttle

by Roger Sandall

Book title

Abstract adventuring

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

Book title

Always to blame

on The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism

by Pascal Bruckner,Steven Rendall

reviewed by Brian C. Anderson

Book title

Sublunary concerns

on The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems

by Sherod Santos

reviewed by Callie Siskel

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