The difficulty with Hegel
by Roger Kimball
Reflections on the philosopher, occasioned by the recent biography by Terry Pinkard.
Clement Greenberg
by Tim Hilton
A memoir of the art critic, reprinted from the book Telling Lives, edited by Alistair Horne, which was published in England this year by Macmillan.
A theatrical cipher
by Mark Steyn
On Avow, by Bill C. Davis; The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman & The Man Who Came To Dinner, by George Kaufman and Moss Hart.
The splendid Chardin
by Karen Wilkin
On Chardin at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Alice Neel, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Two princes & a mock Tudor
by Laura Jacobs
On Ethan Stiefel, Angel Corella & the spring season at the American Ballet Theatre.
The other Rota
by John Simon
On classical music of Nino Rota.
Starry skies above
by David Mermelstein
On the Ojai Music Festival in California.
The politics of posturing
by James Bowman
On “reality” television and the Republican convention.
Posthumous impresario
by Eric Ormsby
A review of Last Poems: Manuscript Materials, by W. B. Yeats, edited by James Pethica.
Patriotism of the heart
by James Bowman
A review of My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative, by Norman Podhoretz.
A stereopticon
by Guy Davenport
A review of Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates & Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings, edited by Brian Boyd & Robert Michael Pyle.
Crudity beyond belief
by Theodore Dalrymple
On the English town Walsall, and its new art gallery.