Wise, foolish, enchanting Lady Mary
by Joseph Epstein
On the life & letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
The “High Art” of Nicolas Poussin
by Karen Wilkin
On the Poussin retrospective at the Louvre.
Squaring the circle: Stéphane Mallarmé
by John Simon
On a new biography of Mallarmé by Gordon Millan & a new translation of the poetry by Henry Weinfield.
A Swiss symbolist
by Mario Naves
On Ferdinand Hodler: Views & Visions at the National Academy of Design, New York.
Exhibition note
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar
On Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On John Constable at the Frick Collection, New York.
Two theaters, fat & thin
by Mark Steyn
On the mega-musicals & one- & two-actor shows that now dominate Broadway.
Smokeless “Cigarettes”: Pina Bausch at BAM
by Laura Jacobs
On Bausch’s Two Cigarettes in the Dark at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The elections explained
by James Bowman
On the media pundits’ various analyses of the Republican landside in the mid-term elections.
Intimations of mortality
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Afterlife by John Updike & All the Days & Nights by William Maxwell.
In Darwin's footsteps
by Paul Gross
A review of Naturalist by E. O. Wilson.
Castroenteritis
by Mark Falcoff
A review of Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infant.