Science and human nature
Considering Bill Joy's article in Wired on the dangers of technology
Dull, tedious, boring
On the Whitney Biennial.
Atatürk's creation
by David Fromkin
Upon the publication of Andrew Mango's biography.
"Strange seriousness": discovering Daumier
by Roger Kimball
A consideration of the artist upon viewing Daumier, 1808-1879, at the Phillips Collection, Washington,
Martin du Gard's monster in a box
by Ben Downing
A consideration of the author and his unfinished novel Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort.
Modishness & Blairishness
by John Gross
On mayoral politics in London
Out of the humor business
by Mark Steyn
On The Tale of the Allergist's Wife & The Altruists
Tilman Riemenschneider at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On Frantisek Vobecky: Photomontages 1935-1938 at Ubu Gallery, New York, Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction
in the 20th Century at Knoedler & Company, New York, Marsden Hartley: Drawings at Kraushaar Galleries, New York & C. R. W.
Nevinson: The Twentieth Century at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Concert note
by Jay Nordlinger
On Ignat Solzhenitsyn with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall, New York.
Tiresias redux
by Theodore Dalrymple
A review of Crossing by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Morally handicapped
by Brooke Allen
Review of Diana Mosley by Jan Dalley
The pilgrim returns
by Lauren Weiner
Review of Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
The will & the way
by Carl Rollyson
A review of In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag
Shorter notice
by Max Watman
Review of Vassily Aksyonov's The New Sweet Style.
Life in Basqueland
by Alexander Coleman
On The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky