No Lapham matter
by Roger Kimball
On Lewis H. Lapham’s recent article titled “Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill”; a fantasy of disturbing proportions.
Gulliver’s travails: The U.S. in the post-Cold-War world
by John O'Sullivan
On U. S. foreign policy in the post-Cold-War world.
Assoluta
by Laura Jacobs
Who will be the next assoluta in the ballet world?
The real Che
by Anthony Daniels
On the cult of Ernesto Che Guevara; irrational reflection “kept alive by a good dose of commercialism.”
In search of Don Quixote
by Martin Greenberg
On two “schools” of reading “the mother of all novels.”
The self-made Scot
by John Keegan
On John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps; “a writer touched by genius.”
Gitmo chic
by Mark Steyn
On Nicolas Kent and Sacha Wares’s New York production of Guantanamo & William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony at the Helen Hayes.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Scott LoBaido” at Tribute Gallery; Will Cotton at Mary Boone Chelsea Gallery; “Modern Masters” at Salander-O’Reilly; “Lois Dodd: Flashings” at Alexandre Gallery; Joan Mitchell at Mary Ryan Gallery; “Under the Influence” at Barbara Mathes Gallery & Ai Weiwei at Robert Miller Gallery.
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On this year's Salzburg Festival, including the Czech Philharmonic and Chorus conducted by Gerd Albrecht, a recital by singer Violeta Urmana, and Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt.
Rhetorical recklessness
by James Bowman
On “the absence of any shame in self-contradiction among our journalistic and political controversialists today”
The insider's insider
by John Russell
A review of Duveen: A Life in Art, by Meryle Secrest.
Theory of everything
by Martin Gardner
A review of The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, by Roger Penrose.
The usual suspects
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess, by S. J. Hamrick & The Private Life of Kim Philby, by Rufina Philby.
Rock rage
by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
A review of A Rage for Rock Gardening: The story of Reginald Farrer, by Nicola Shulman.
The world's first story
by John J. Miller
A review of Gilgamesh, translated by Derrek Hines & Gilgamesh: A New English Version, translated by Stephen Mitchell.
Shorter notices
by Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball on The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-1973, edited by John Saumarez Smith.
Shorter notices
by Stefan Beck
Stefan Beck on In the Shadow of No Towers, by Art Spiegelman.
The "Memory" of Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004
by Hilton Kramer
On the passing of Czeslaw Milosz, “a writer of multiple achievements but also a prophet of liberation for whom the individual exercise of disabused memory came to constitute a spiritual vocation.”