Tending the gardens of music
by Jay Nordlinger
On the supposed death of classical music. The sixth of our series “Lengthened shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-first Century.”
How good was Maugham?
by Anthony Daniels
On Jeffrey Meyers's new biography of this author whose “soul is a secret garden into which the elect may penetrate only after overcoming a number of perilous obstacles.”
Remembering George Gissing
by Judy Stove
In search of the novelist who was “not far behind Zola and Turgenev.”
Of human accomplishment
by Denis Dutton
On Charles Murray's accomplishments in his new book.
Waiting for the golden pig
by Eric Ormsby
On the Christmas season in the Czech capital.
Neil Simon: the goodbye guy
by Mark Steyn
On Rose’s Dilemma, in which the author of Barefoot in the Park and Sweet Charity ends not with a bang but a whimper.
La Belle Fernande in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
Pablo Picasso turns heads in Washington with “The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier” at the National Gallery in Washington D.C.
Armchair adventures
by James Panero
On Joe Zucker at Paul Kasmin and Nolan/Eckman; Philip Pearlstein at Robert Miller & Antoine-Louis Barye at James Graham.
Beast-man politics
by James Bowman
On flying over the cuckoo's nest with Lyndon LaRouche.
The mystery of Marianne Moore
by William Logan
A review of The Poems of Marianne Moore, by Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman and Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924, by Marianne Moore, edited by Robin G. Schulze.
More than natural grace
by Francis Morrone
A review of Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, by Frederick Law Olmsted.
The great imperialist
by Deepak Lal
A review of Curzon: Imperial Statesman, by David Gilmour.
Nothing shabby
by Alexandra Mullen
A review of The Afterlife: Essays & Criticism, by Penelope Fitzgerald.