Regardless of the ‘truth’
On the case of the falsely-accused Duke lacrosse players.
Hayek & the intellectuals
by Roger Kimball
On the changing relationship between the Austrian economist and bien-pensant thinkers.
Contra Iran
by Daniel Johnson
On the place of the Islamic Republic in the international community.
Peter Fleming at 100
by Ben Downing
A reexamination of the writer on his would-be centenary.
The visible Ralph Ellison
by Brooke Allen
On Arnold Rampersad's recent biography.
Blood & smashed glass
by Anthony Daniels
On dystopian novels.
Losing control
by Brooke Allen
On The Year of Magical Thinking, Howard Katz, King Lear, Mary Rose, and Curtains.
Venice & Islam at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On “Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On "Le Nouveau Réalisme" at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris.
Exhibition note
by David Grosz
On "Barcelona & Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On the sculptor Sabin Howard & “Constable’s Oil Sketches 1809–1829: The Maria Bicknell Years” at
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Russian National Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Gerald Finley at Zankel Hall of Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert, and Murray Perahia at Avery Fisher Hall.
Concert note
by Ben Finane
On the NDR Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Rule Britannia?
by James Bowman
On Britain's recent hostage crisis in Iran.
Lacking elevation
by Harvey Mansfield
On Hugh Brogan's Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life.
Panpsychist & poet
by Peter Schwendener
On Simon Blaxland de Lange's Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age.
Worth doing badly
by Max Watman
On Martin Amis's House of Meetings.
The slender Mr. Cogito
by Anthony Cuda
On Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems: 1956-1998.
The master of Europe
by Robert Messenger
On Frederick Kagan's The End of the Old Order: Napoleon & Europe, 1801-1805.
Peacetime “Inferno”
by Peter Filkins
On Louis Begley's Matters of Honor.
R. W. B. Lewis: an appreciation
by Michael Anderson
Looking back on the life of the prominent scholar of American literature.