James Tuttleton, 1934-1998
On the life & work of one of America's wisest & most percipient critics
Liberalism & imperialism
by Keith Windschuttle
Being the fourth in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism
Tolstoy's prophecy: "What is Art?" today
by James Sloan Allen
On Tolstoy's curmudgeonly book on art & morality
The scholar of scandal
by Brooke Allen
Review of The Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Fintan O'Toole
A thoroughly modern Monet
by Karen Wilkin
Monet in the 20th Century, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
The ironic tiger
by Richard Tillinghast
On Irish culture & the economic boom
"Corpus" delecti
by Mark Steyn
On Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi
Van Gogh in Washington
by Mario Naves
On Van Gogh's Van Goghs, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Derailed in San Francisco
by David Mermelstein
Review of A Streetcar Named Desire by André Previn, at the San Francisco Opera
Concert note
by Lawrence Johnson
On Mourning Becomes Electra, by Marvin David Levy, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Concert note
by Alexander Coleman
On the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, at Carnegie Hall.
The Gingrich story
by James Bowman
On Newt Gingrich & the press corps
Sins & sensibility
by William Logan
Reviews of Sweet Machine by Mark Doty, Ten Commandments by J. D. McClatchy, The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot, A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison, Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins, Blizzard of One by Mark Strand & Hay by Paul Muldoon
Brontosauran bardolatry
by Paul Dean
Review of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
PC New York
by Francis Morrone
Review of Gotham: A History of New York City by Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace
Bored & boring
by Mark Falcoff
Review of The Politics of Spanish American “Modernismo” By Exquisite Design by Gerard Aching