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May 2007 Volume 25, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

Regardless of the ‘truth’
On the case of the falsely-accused Duke lacrosse players.


Features

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.


Poems

You have flown to the dangerous country
by Elizabeth Spires

Color song
by Josephine Jacobsen


Manners & morals

Blood & smashed glass
by Anthony Daniels
On dystopian novels.


Theater

Losing control
by Brooke Allen
On The Year of Magical Thinking, Howard Katz, King Lear, Mary Rose, and Curtains.


Art

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.


Music

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.


The Media

Rule Britannia?
by James Bowman
On Britain's recent hostage crisis in Iran.


Books

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.


Notebook

R. W. B. Lewis: an appreciation
by Michael Anderson
Looking back on the life of the prominent scholar of American literature.