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Editor’s note

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.

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February 2012 Volume 30, Number 6

Notes & comments

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.

Features

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An unpublished essay by the playwright and novelist.

Departments

Poems

At 89 by Daniel Hoffman

High summer, these islands by Richard Tillinghast

Reconsiderations

Dwight Macdonald reconsidered by John Simon
On the editor of the Partisan Review.

Theater

Todd is my slave name by Kevin D. Williamson
On Seminar, Honeymoon Hotel & Lysistrata Jones.

Art

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.

Music

New York chronicle by Jay Nordlinger

The Media

The left-wing fantasy by James Bowman
On the myth of the Republican "theocracy."

Notebook

A cack-handed genius by Stefan Beck
I.M Ronald Searle, 1920–2011.

Books

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