Junk Mailer
On the naked and the dead: Norman Mailer and The New York Review Of Books.
Politics and pedagogy
Protesting for extra credit.
Poets on poetry
On the special April section.
Lessons from Juvenal
by Roger Kimball
On the great Roman satirist.
Who was Simon Raven?
by Brooke Allen
Considering the late English novelist, journalist, television writer & cult figure.
Anglo-saxon attitudes
by Theodore Dalrymple
What do unintelligent or uneducated Parisians read?
Luck of the Irish?
by Mark Steyn
On Heartbreak House, by George Bernard Shaw & Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme, by Frank McGuinness.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On William Bailey at Robert Miller, Paul Georges at Salander-O'Reilly, Marsden Hartley at Alexandre & Wayne Thiebaud at Allan Stone.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Emerson String Quartet at Carnegie Hall, Ensemble Wien-Berlin at Alice Tully Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie, Hugo Wolf, Hertor Berlioz & Ned Rorem.
Concert Note
by Patrick J. Smith
David Robertson with the New York Philharmonic
Rather not
by James Bowman
On Dan Rather’s interview with Saddam Hussein.
The war to begin all wars
by Victor Davis Hanson
A review of The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan.
Native fiction
by Geoffrey Blainey
A review of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, by Keith Windschuttle.
Prime problem
by James Franklin
A review of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire.
I spy
by Anthony Daniels
A review of The Unsleeping Eye, by Robert J. Stove.