Raymond Aron & the power of ideas
by Roger Kimball
Occasioned by the reissue of Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals.
After my own heart: Dorothy Sayers's feminism
by Susan Haack
Reflections on Gaudy Night, the philosophical novel, and old-school feminism.
Frantz Fanon: the platonic form of human resentment
by Anthony Daniels
Upon the publication of Frantz Fanon: A Biography, by David Macey.
Fresh looks at van Gogh
by Karen Wilkin
On “Van Gogh’s ‘Postman’: the portraits of Joseph Roulin,” at the Musuem of Modern Art, New York & “Vincent Van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard,” at the Saint Louis Museum of Art.
The tyranny of anti-racism
by Sarah Ruden
Authoritarian government, media coverage & the new South Africa.
The ghosts of the ghosts of Broadway past
by Mark Steyn
On the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of Sondheim’s Follies.
A debt that can never be paid: Stieglitz & American modernism
by William C. Agee
On “Modern Art and America: Alfred Steiglitz and His New York Galleries,” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
Daniel Kunitz on “Out of the Fifties -” Into the Sixties: 6 Figurative Expressionists” at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On “Graham Nickson: Recent Paintings,” at the Salander O’Reilly Galleries.
Taylor's domain
by Laura Jacobs
On the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Handel’s Acis and Galatea, at the New York City Opera; the Met Chamber Ensemble, at Weill Recital Hall; Murray Perahia conducting and playing with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, at Avery Fisher Hall; Christoph Eschenbach conducting the New York Philharmonic, at Avery Fisher Hall & Ariadne auf Naxos, at the Metropolitan Opera.
The accustomed perspective
by James Bowman
On the coverage of the detention of an American spy plane by China.
Blurring the borders
by Brooke Allen
A review of Border Crossing, by Pat Barker; Beloved Stranger, by Clare Boylan & Thanksgiving, by Michael Dibdin.
Great is this truth
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Lying about Hitler: History, Holocaust & the David Irving Trial, by Richard J. Evans.
Of Osberts and Evelyns
by Ben Downing
A review of To keep the ball rolling, by Anthony Powell.
A complicated business
by Sudip Bose
A review of Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, by Jeremy Treglown.
A deadly game
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost, by Patrick Marnham.
Symbols & syntax
by Paul Dean
A review of Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot, by Denis Donoghue.