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June 2011 Volume 29, Number 10  

Notes & Comments

Of laws, not men
On Bernard-Henri Lévy's moral blindness.

A word of thanks
We are grateful for your continuing support.


Features

Heavy sentences
by Joseph Epstein
On How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, by Stanley Fish.

The consummate dabbler
by Barton Swaim
On the checkered career of H. G. Wells.

At Grandpa Twain's knee
by Stefan Beck
On the Sage of Hannibal's Autobiography.

Remembering James Wilson
by Joseph Tartakovsky
On our most neglected Founding Father.


Poems

Rose Poe
by George Green


The outgoing tide
by James Como
On the upcoming Peruvian elections.


Reconsiderations

Forging the special relationship
by Andrew Roberts
On Teddy Roosevelt's crucial role in forming the Anglo-American alliance.


Theater

Untimely comes this hurt
by Kevin D. Williamson
On King Lear, The Family Shakespeare & The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures


Art

Manet in Paris
by Karen Wilkin
On “Manet, Inventor of the Modern” at the Musée D'Orsay, Paris.

The classic romantic
by Marco Grassi
On “George Inness in Italy” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On "Dutch Landscapes" at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.

Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On "John Storrs, Machine-age Modernist" at the Grey Art Gallery, New York.

Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Matthew Miller: the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it” at Famous Accountants, Queens; “Don Voisine” at McKenzie Fine Art; “Stephen Westfall: Seraphim: Paintings and Works on Paper” at Lennon Weinberg; “Jules Olitski: Embracing Circles 1959–1964” at FreedmanArt, New York; “Jacob Collins: New Work” at Adelson Galleries; and “Exhibition of Contemporary American Realism” at the National Arts Club, New York.


Music

New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger

An exuberant “Comte Ory”
by Heather Mac Donald
On the New York premiere of Rossini's comic opera.


The Media

Cut & dried
by James Bowman


Verse Chronicle

Blah blah blah
by William Logan


Books

Wills watching
by Michael McDonald

Principles first
by Andrew C. McCarthy

Chancellor Faustus
by Daniel Johnson

Out of Ireland
by Bill Coyle

Return to sender
by Callie Siskel


Notebook

Connoting without denoting
by Anthony Daniels
On a disheartening trip to the Whitworth Gallery of Art, Manchester.