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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.


Poems

La cacciata
by Charles Doersch

This organizing solitude
by Charles Martin

Minotaur
by Joanna Pearson


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


Books

Empathy with us
by Gary Saul Morson

Two-headed Hitchens
by Christopher Caldwell

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

Abstract adventuring
by Martin Gardner

Always to blame
by Brian C. Anderson

Sublunary concerns
by Callie Siskel


Notebook

Lord Acton's revolution
by Gerald J. Russello
On Lord Acton's Lectures on the French Revolution.