The new Epicureans
by Kenneth Minogue
The first in a series titled “The survival of culture."
What did Kierkegaard want?
by Roger Kimball
Reflections on the philosopher, occasioned by the recent biography by Alastair Hannay.
The exemplar: Ignazio Silone
by David Pryce-Jones
A consideration of the novelist and anti-communist, and the accusations against him.
The accomplishment of Edith Wharton
by Brooke Allen
A consideration of Edith Wharton’s achievement upon the Library of America publication of her Collected Stories.
The fabrication of Aboriginal history
by Keith Windschuttle
On revisionism in Australia, and the difficulties of challenging orthodoxy.
Louis Sullivan after functionalism
by Michael J. Lewis
Occasioned by The Idea of Louis Sullivan, by John Szarkowski; Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture, by Robert Twombly and Narciso G. Menocal; Sullivan’s City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, by David van Zanten.
The historiographical earthquake
by Mark Falcoff
A review of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary W. Harbeck, and Grigory Sevostianov.
Rewriting George Orwell
by Stephen Schwartz
A consideration of a new and bowdlerized edition of Homage to Catalonia.
The Violence of Allen Tate
by David Yezzi
On the poet and critic, upon the publication of Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, by Thomas A. Underwood.
"Beyond the easel": the rise of the décorateur
by Karen Wilkin
On Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Kidsplay
by Jay Nordlinger
A chronicle of the early careers of Alexander Sitkovetsky, Ha-Na Chang, Matt Haimovitz, Piotr Anderszewski, Monica Groop, Ian Bostridge & Olli Mustonen.
Chandraology
by James Bowman
On scandal stories and their cause.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's doubly burning candles
by X.J. Kennedy
A review of What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein, and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford.
The muddle set straight
by Alain Silvera
A review of In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence and Its Interpretations, by Elie Kedourie.
March to the scaffold
by Paul Dean
A review of The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh: A Historical Edition, edited by Michael Rudick.
Roar of the greasepaint
by R. J. Stove
A review of Pietro Mascagni: A Bio-Bibliography, by Roger Flury.
Shorter notice
by Anthony Daniels
Anthony Daniels on The Politics of Sex and Other Essays: On Conservatism, Culture, and Imagination, by Robert Grant.
Shorter notice
by Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers on Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood, by Nancy Schoenberger.