The death of attention
by Michael Weiss | Nov 07, 2009 02:26 PM
God Bless
by James Bowman | Nov 05, 2009 06:05 PM
More on NY 23
by Roger Kimball | Nov 05, 2009 01:05 PM
Yale & the veil
On Islamist pressure in New Haven.
Citizens into prisoners by Henry A. Kissinger
A foreword to "The Berlin Wall: 20 years after"
Tyranny set in stone by Roger Kimball
Why we must not forget the lessons of the Berlin.
Weak will, high wall by Donald Kagan
On President Kennedy's failure in the face of barbed wire.
Russia before the mirror: reflections on 1989 by Jonathan Brent
On the realities of cultural transformation in Russia.
The costs of abstraction by Anthony Daniels
On the intellectual irresponsibility of Soviet sympathizers.
Margin walkers
by Stefan Beck
On The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker; Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers; Homer & Langley, by E. L. Doctorow; and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Antique Romans & the Dane
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Jude Law in Hamlet, the Atlantic Theater Company's Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Collaborative Stages's House of Yes, and The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb.
Watteau at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On “Watteau, Music, and Theater” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On "The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy," Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont.
Exhibition note
by Carl W. Scarbrough
On "In Pursuit of Knowledge: 600 Years of Leipzig University," The Grolier Club, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction" at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Sam Francis: 1953–1959”at L&M Arts; “Jay Milder: Recent Work” at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “Abby Leigh: The Sleeper’s Eye” at Betty Cuningham Gallery and “Silver Anniversary: 25 Photographs, 1835 to 1914” at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Europeanization of the Metropolitan Opera, Alan Gilbert's New York Philharmonic, Paul Jacobs at Juiliard, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Down the memory hole
by James Bowman
On the art of forgetting selectively.
Bartók, Parry & Lord: a flawed legacy
by Stephen Schwartz
Debunking the myth of "Homeric" Balkan folk songs.
Zola alá mode
on The Belly of Paris (Modern Library Classics)
by Emile Zola,Mark Kurlansky
reviewed by Brooke Allen
Better read than red
on The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
by John V. Fleming
reviewed by David Pryce-Jones
Soul thief
on Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
by Michael Greenberg
reviewed by Barton Swaim
Opiates for the last man
on The Only Super Power: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism
by Paul Hollander
reviewed by Costin Alamariu
Sliding in due time
on It's Beginning to Hurt: Stories
by James Lasdun
reviewed by Alec Solomita
Something intended
on Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin (Continuum Literary Studies)
by Richard Palmer
reviewed by Denis Donoghue