How Democracies Perish, British Edition
by Roger Kimball | Dec 02, 2008 03:07 PM
Mumbai Jumbo
by James Bowman | Dec 01, 2008 05:19 PM
Nobody's Ever Been in Pittsburgh
by James Bowman | Nov 30, 2008 06:04 PM
Freedom imperilled
On democratic despotism.
Opera in New York: RIP?
On Gérard Mortier and the City Opera.
Homage at the Metropolitan by Karen Wilkin
On “The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
American art: the authorized version by Michael J. Lewis
On American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, by Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts.
Roberto Longhi remembered by Marco Grassi
On the Italian art critic and scholar.
Bernini & Houdon by Eric Gibson
On "Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture" & "Houdon at the Louvre."
Bacon's theater of the absurd by David Yezzi
On Francis Bacon at the Tate Britain, London.
Made in China by James Panero
On Zhang Huan & contemporary art in China.
Shock & awe
by William Logan
On Red Bird by Mary Oliver, Ours by Cole Swensen, Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James, Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa, Figure Studies by Claudia Emerson, One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds.
More is less
by Brooke Allen
On A Man for All Seasons at the American Airlines Theatre, and To Be or Not to Be at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and Romantic Poetry at City Center.
In from the cold
by Christie Davies
On "Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970" at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Exhibition note
by Nola Tully
On "Oceans, Rivers & Skies: Anselm Adams, Robert Adams & Alfred Stieglitz" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On "George Tooker: A Retrospective" at The National Academy, New York.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Menahem Pressler & Richard Stoltzman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, James Levine & the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall,Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly & Doctor Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera, and Lang Lang with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall.
The history of an election
by James Bowman
On Senator Obama's victory.
Ol' man author
on The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
by Oscar Hammerstein II,Amy Asch,Ted Chapin
reviewed by Mark Steyn
Battle of Wills
on What the Gospels Meant
by Garry Wills
reviewed by Joseph Bottum
and
on Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
by Garry Wills
reviewed by Joseph Bottum
Pitch highly strung
on Collected Critical Writings
by Geoffrey Hill,Kenneth Haynes
reviewed by Paul Dean
A man of imagination
on Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)
by Adam Kirsch
reviewed by Joseph Tartakovsky
Dem bones
on Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
by Russell Shorto
reviewed by Alec Solomita