Liberal screaming
On Going Down Screaming, Andrew Sullivan's New York Times article of October 11
“In the end character is destiny”
In the end character is destiny, on the state of the press during the Clinton presidency
“One very simple principle”
by Roger Kimball
The third in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism
Pink pigeons & blue mayonnaise
by Joseph Epstein
On the composer, painter & novelist Gerald Berners
“Vsyo Normalno”—in Russia
by Jonathan Brent
On the daily strains of Russian life
Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmühle
by Eric Ormsby
On The Castle & its translations
Swans and swains
by Mark Steyn
On Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
A Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
Review of From Van Eyck to Brueghel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mark Rothko at the Whitney
by Mario Naves
On the retrospective of the artist's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Illusions of equivalence
by James Bowman
On Cold War, the CNN television series
In the city
by Brooke Allen
Reviews of Bech at Bay by John Updike & Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
“Absolute nonsense”—Gogol's tales
by Gary Saul Morson
On The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
On the side of truth
by Jenny Teichman
On Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack
Book notes
by Christopher Carduff
On 1898: The Birth of the American Century by David Traxel, Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conquerer of the Air by Nancy Winters & Man From Babel by Eugene Jolas
Mythmaking & the Aldo Moro case
On the assassination of Aldo Moro & Italian conspiracy theories