Editor's note: We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's New Criterion Poetry Prize is George Green. His book of poems Lord Byron's Foot, will be published in the fall of 2012 by St. Augustine's Press.
Must-Read Alert: Andrew Roberts in demolition mode
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The Suicide Club
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Romancing radicalism
On The New York Times's love letter to the Weather Underground member Judy Clark.
Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011
On the passing of the painter.
Future tense, VI: Under the scientific Bo Tree by Anthony Daniels
On the meaning in material world.
Christopher, for better & for worse by Peter Collier
On the critic, polemicist & raconteur Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011).
Let's tickle the ivories by David Dubal
On the joys of playing the piano.
At the Cafe Mirabell by Thornton Wilder
An unpublished essay by the playwright and novelist.
Dwight Macdonald reconsidered
by John Simon
On the editor of the Partisan Review.
Todd is my slave name
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Seminar, Honeymoon Hotel & Lysistrata Jones.
Two young artists
by Karen Wilkin
On “Rembrandt and Degas: Two Young Artists” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On "New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art & Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Work 5000 B.C.–A.D. 2010” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London & “The Flamboyant Mr. Chinnery: An English Artist in India and China” at Asia House, London.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On "Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed” at the Yale Center for British Art.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “MIC:CHECK (occupy)” at Sideshow gallery, Brooklyn; “Gabriele Evertz: Rapture” at Minus Space, Brooklyn; “Lori Ellison” at McKenzie Fine Art, New York & “Halsey Hathaway and Gary Petersen: New Paintings” and “Paintings by Rob de Oude” at Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn.
5 “Lee Bontecou: Recent Work: Sculpture and Drawing” opened at FreedmanArt, New York, on October 27, 2011 and remains on view through February 11, 2012.
The left-wing fantasy
by James Bowman
On the myth of the Republican "theocracy."
A cack-handed genius
by Stefan Beck
I.M Ronald Searle, 1920–2011.
The persecution of Lord Black
on A Matter of Principle
by Conrad Black
reviewed by Andrew C. McCarthy
Lawrence's legacy
on Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
by James Schneider
reviewed by David Pryce-Jones
Chercez la femme
on Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power
by Susan Hertog
reviewed by Carl Rollyson
Fuller house
on The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography
by John Matteson
reviewed by Marc M. Arkin
Gigantic footprints
on On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Writers on Writers)
by Michael Dirda
reviewed by Alexandra Mullen
Shorter notice
on Age of Absurdity
by Michael Foley
reviewed by Roger Kimball
and
on Portrait of Murdock Pemberton
by Sally Pemberton
reviewed by James Panero