This way to the egress
On Okwui Enwezor’s curatorship of Documenta.
The rewards of radicalism
On Susan Sontag’s sale of her archives.
Higher education, Berkeley style
On sex in the classroom at Berkeley.
Burke & political liberty
by Martin Greenberg
The seventh in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
Simone Weil: A saint for our time?
by Jillian Becker
On the thinker, upon the publication of Simone Weil, by Francine du Plessix Gray.
Merrill's progress
by Daniel Mark Epstein
Occasioned by the publication of Collected Poems, by James Merrill.
Bogeymen and aspirates
by Mark Steyn
On Brutal Imagination, by Cornelius Eady & Deidre Murray
& Further than the Furthest Thing, by Zinnie Harris.
Compressed narraties, minute actions
by Daniel Kunitz
A review of “Surrealist Collage” at the Zabriskie Gallery & “The Quintet of Remembrance,” by Bill Viola at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, Michelle DeYoung at Weill Recital Hall, Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall, Orchestre de Paris at Carnegie Hall, Shostakovich played by Hilary Hahn & Concertgebouw conducted by Chailly.
Whither the "Philadelphia sound"?
by Patrick J. Smith
On The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
Reporting innuendo
by James Bowman
On polling and public opinion regarding Enron.
A complete moral void
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Anthony Blunt: his lives, by Miranda Carter.
A contented mandarin
by Anthony Daniels
A review of Darwin’s Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination, by Gerald Weissmann.
Houses of repute
by Alexander Coleman
A review of Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera, by Johanna Fiedler, Covent Garden: The Untold Story, by Norman Lebrecht, Valery Gergiev and the Kirov: A Story of Survival, by John Ardoin.
The seventh seal
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet, by Elaine Feinstein.