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October 2010 Volume 29, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

The art world: another epitaph
Cultural vandalism at the AAMD.

A new report from Team B
A competitive analysis of Sharia's threat to America.


Features

Dr. Jones's Hamlet complex
by Anthony Daniels
Should we psychoanalyze the Bard?

“Bovary” & le mot juste
by Brooke Allen
On translating Flaubert through the years.

Building the Gilded Age
by Michael J. Lewis
Revisiting McKim, Mead & White.

Ransom & co. revisited
by Denis Donoghue
On the Southern critics.


Poems

Leaf color
by William Logan

The swing
by Rachel Hadas

Valentine's Day
by Rachel Hadas

The swimmer
by Alexander Nemser


Letter from Turkey

Anatolian crossroads
by Barry Strauss
On Turkish tension: looking East and West.


Theater

Me & the devil
by Kevin D. Williamson
On The Screwtape Letters, Orlando & .


Art

Picasso’s Degas
by Karen Wilkin
On "Picasso looks at Degas” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institure, Williamstown, M.A.

Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On "Julie Mehretu: Grey Area” at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On "Morris Graves: Falcon of the Inner Eye, A Centennial Celebration” at the Michael Roesenfeld Gallery, New York.

Exhibition note
by Hanny Hindi
On "Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan” at The Morgan Library Museum, New York.

Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Kim Uchiyama: Archaeo" at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “John Dubrow: New Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “In the Light of Corot” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects & “David Kapp: Recent Paintings” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.


Music

Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the 2010 Salzburg fesitval.


The Media

Bien pensants, maudit peasants
by James Bowman
On the media's hatreds.


Books

Untouchable
by Terry Teachout

Literature & politics
by James Piereson

Parody parade
by Christie Davies

Truthful myths
by Paul Dean

Stop smiling
by John Derbyshire

Tuckerman’s return
by Jason Guriel

Exploring the interior
by Stefan Beck

Shorter notice
by Peter Schwendener

Shorter notice
by Herbert I. London