A note of thanks
On The New Criterion’s 20th anniversary year.
Conservatives need not apply
On politics in the Berkeley English department.
The fortunes of permanence
by Roger Kimball
The tenth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
Radical history
by Harvey Klehr
On shoddy & politicized scholarship.
In the year of Jubilee
by John Gross
On the upcoming celebrations.
Ee-i-ee-i-o
by Mark Steyn
On The Goat by Edward Albee.
A celebration of painting in Boston
by Karen Wilkin
A review of Impressionist Still Life at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
Daniel Kunitz on Stuart Davis: Major Late Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
Reviews of Handel’s Agrippina at City Opera, Sir Colin Davis with the New York Philharmonic, Krystian Zimerman at Carnegie Hall & Christine Schäfer at Alice Tully Hall.
Irrevocable vulgarization
by James Bowman
On Washington’s cow parade & Ted Koppel.
Falls the shadow
by William Logan
Reviews of A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright; Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan; The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin; Belonging by Dick Davis; Never by Jorie Graham & The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill.
The art & life of Dostoevsky
by Gary Saul Morson
A review of Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1870-1881 by Joseph Frank.
Where Eagletons dare
by Paul Dean
A review of The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton.
To the shores of Tripoli
by Robert Messenger
A review of The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot.
Arrested development
by Theodore Dalrymple
On Oscar Wilde.