Uncertainty at the Met
On the retirement of Philippe de Montebello.
Howard Zinn's fairy tale
On the upcoming television adaptation of "A People's History of the United States."
Frost's “Notebooks”
On errors in the recent edition.
Between art & science
by Roger Scruton
On modernist architecture.
The unrecorded man
by John Derbyshire
On Paul Scott's "Raj Quartet."
Inhuman power of the lie: “The Great Terror” at 40
by Michael Weiss
On the anniversary of the definitive work on Stalin's purges.
Assault on a fine ideal
by John Kekes
On the challenges egalitarianism presents to equality.
360°
by Deborah Warren
A poem by Deborah Warren.
The conclusion of Vis's letter to Ramin, translated by Dick Davis
by Fakhraddin Gorgani
An excerpt from Fakhraddin Gorgani's Vis and Ramin, translated by Dick Davis.
A lost part of Europe
by Jessica Douglas-Home
On the restoration of the Apafi manor house in Romania.
Never the Twain
by Brooke Allen
On the revival of Mark Twain's Is He Dead?, the Steppenwolf production of August: Osage County, and the return to Broadway of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming forty years after its debut.
Camille Pissarro at the Jewish Museum
by Karen Wilkin
On "Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country" at the Jewish Museum, New York.
Exhibition note
by Richard Tillinghast
On "Millais" at the Tate Britain, London.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On "Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes" at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On "Richard Pousette-Dart: Drawing, Form Is Verb" at Knoedler & Company; "Group Exhibition: Abstractions" at Charles Cowles Gallery; "Barry Le Va: Voltage" at David Nolan Gallery & "El Anatsui: Zebra Crossing" at Jack Shainman Gallery.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Un ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera and Ross Lee Finney's Chamber Music at the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
A kick in the pants
by James Bowman
On the tendency of the press to be "non-smart."
Fear of regress
by Anthony Daniels
On La stratégie des antilopes by Jean Hatzfeld.
State worship
by John O'Sullivan
On Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg.
Thugland
by Gary Saul Morson
On Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia, by Lesley Chamberlain.
Child of Zeus
by Alexander Nazaryan
On Alexander the Great Failure, by John D. Grainger.
Will to innocence
by Garrick Davis
On The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams, edited by David Roessel & Nicholas Moschovakis.