Veritas or Vanitas
On virtue at Harvard.
Is America Periclean?
by Victor Davis Hanson
The second entry in our essay series "Future tense: the lessons of culture in a time of upheaval."
Lionel Trilling & the critical imagination
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
On the critic's “moral realism”.
Getting used to the f-word
by William D. Gairdner
On the rise of microfascism in Western democracies.
Alexandria, Durrell & the “Quartet”
by John Derbyshire
On the lost Levant of Durrell's series.
Brutal blueprints
by Anthony Daniels
On the architecture of Brasilia.
Comedy in “The Magic Mountain”
by Jeffrey Meyers
On Thomas Mann's sense of humor.
Real drama
by Kevin D. Williamson
On the Fiasco Theater's Cymbelline & The Wood by Dan Klores.
Feininger at the Whitney
by Karen Wilkin
On “Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World.”
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Will Barnet at 100” at the National Academy Museum; “Will Barnet: Small Works on Paper from the 1950s” at Alexandre Gallery; “Lars and Lori” at Valentine, Queens; “Sally Pettus: Paintings from the Perimeter” at KS Art; “Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun” at Knoedler & Company; “Richard Timperio: Paintings 2011” at Art 101, Brooklyn & “Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location, Mapping the New York Art World” at Lesley Heller Workspace.
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the annual classical music festival in Austria.
A partisan memorial
by James Bowman
On the politics of commemoration.
Tigers in the wood
by David Solway
On poetic form.