Better late...
On The Decline and Fall of Literature
The elephant in the gallery, or the lessons of “Sensation”
by Roger Kimball
On Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection, the Brooklyn Museum of Art
The fiasco of “The American Century”
by Hilton Kramer
On The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Lowered expectations
by Mark Steyn
On Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do! & David Crane's Epic Proportions
Silence, exile, cunning
by Brooke Allen
Reviews of A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle, The Last Life by Claire Messud & Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories by Ivan Klima
Arts of power
by Paul Dean
Review of The History of the Reign of King Henry the VII by Francis Bacon, edited by Brian Vickers
A profligate's reserve
by David Yezzi
Reviews of My Dog Tulip & My Father & Myself by J. R. Ackerley
Serious about books
by John Derbyshire
Review of The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
Lightkeepers
by Ben Downing
Review of The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
Soane's tense balance
by J. Duncan Berry
John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley
Gooseberries
by Theodore Dalrymple
Reflections on Chekhov & the author's father