The Washington Post: was anyone really surprised?
by Roger Kimball | Jul 02, 2009 10:31 PM
See Me Gloat
by James Bowman | Jul 02, 2009 05:01 PM
Burka Blues
by Michael Weiss | Jul 01, 2009 03:39 PM
The state despotic by Mark Steyn
On our gradual slide into servitude.
The permanent transient by Joseph Epstein
Santayana in his letters.
Cheerfulness breaks in by Pat Rogers
On two new biographies of the incomparable Dr. Johnson.
A Raphael by Marco Grassi
On the restoration of the Madonna del Cardellino at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Marriage in our time
by Kenneth Minogue
On matrimony in a culture of convenience.
Joe Turner's return
by Eric Grode
On The Death of a Salesman & Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
"Compass in Hand" at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On "Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Musuem of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On "Second Empire Paris: History and Modernity" at Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On Op Art, Gabriele Evertz at Metaphor Gallery, James Little at June Kelly Gallery & Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld Gallery.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Abbey Simon, Magdalena Kožená, and Christopher Prégardien & Michael Gees at Alice Tully Hall, Ricardo Muti with the New York Philharmonic; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, René Pape, and Pierre Boulez with the Staatskappelle Berlin at Carnegie Hall; Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock & Jonathan Manson at Zankel Hall; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera.
Let the sky fall
by James Bowman
On the new official language.
You betcha!
by William Logan
On Ballistics by Billy Collins; Selected Poems by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler; Substrate by Jim A. Powell; The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt; Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove; and It Is Daylight by Arda Collins.
Always in the wrong place
by Anthony Daniels
On the relics of oppression.
Crucial points
by Adam Sisman
A letter from Adam Sisman.
Crucial points: A reply
by Jeffrey Meyers
A response from Jeffrey Meyers.
View from a falling house
on Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America #186)
by Katherine Anne Porter,Darlene Harbour Unrue
reviewed by Eric Ormsby
The seed-plot of history
on 1848: Year of Revolution
by Mike Rapport
reviewed by Daniel Johnson
Ultimate extinction
on Lincoln at Peoria
by Lewis E. Lehrman
reviewed by William Voegeli
Liberation theology
on Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
by David Bentley Hart
reviewed by Stefan Beck
Joys o'er dear
on The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography
by Robert Crawford
reviewed by Barton Swaim
Just let kids be kids
on Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (The Public Square)
by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
reviewed by David L Tubbs