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Our readers are reminded that The New Criterion does not publish in July & August.

 Forthcoming in the fall will be essays by Anthony Daniels, John O' Sullivan, and David Pryce-Jones, among many others.

 In the meantime, be sure to take a look at our special summer pamphlet, "Free speech in an age of Jihad," available on the right column.

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June 2008

Volume 26, Number 10

Notes & comments

Speaking up for the Fifties

On the roots of the Sixties.

A note of thanks

On the generosity of our patrons.

Features

The Sixties at 40

by Peter Collier

On 1968, four decades later.

A literary education

by Joseph Epstein

On being well-versed in literature.

William Wilberforce: the great emancipator

by Keith Windschuttle

On William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague.

Sleuthing Conan Doyle

by Alexandra Mullen

On The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Andrew Lycett and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters edited by Jon Lellenberg.

June 2008

Volume 26, Number 10

Departments

Letter from France

A tale of two countries

by Anthony Daniels

On England, France, and Ruskinian delusions.


Dance

Vaults & waters: the Kirov at City Center

by Laura Jacobs

On the Kirov Ballet in Manhattan.


Theater

LuPone's turn

by Brooke Allen

On Gypsy at the St James Theatre, Boeing-Boeing at the Longacre Theater, and The New Century at Lincoln Center.


Art

Greenberg & Rosenberg

by Karen Wilkin

On "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976" at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On "Catherine Murphy: New Work" at Knoedler & Company, New York, "Walton Ford" at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, and "Jacob Collins—Rediscovering the American Landscape: The Eastholm Project" at Hirschl & Adler, New York.


Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the 2007-2008 season.


The Media

Getting it

by James Bowman

On being part of the small exclusive circle of people who "get it."


Verse Chronicle

Valentine's Day massacre

by William Logan

On Valentines by Ted Kooser, Fifty-Two by Melissa Green, The Wave-Maker by Elizabeth Spires, Seven Notebooks by Campbell McGrath, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe, and Sea Change by Jorie Graham.

June 2008

Volume 26, Number 10

Books

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

Up in smoke

on Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

by Nicholson Baker

reviewed by Andrew Roberts

The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics

The great & the good

on The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics

by Robert Faulkner

reviewed by Daniel Mahoney

Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism

Up from liberalism

on Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism

by Alfred S. Regnery

reviewed by James Piereson

Book title

Off with the motley

on Leoncavallo: Life and Works

by Konrad Dryden,Placido Domingo

reviewed by R. J. Stove

Book title

What Wolff knows

on Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

by Tobias Wolff

reviewed by Stefan Beck

Book title

Shorter notice

on George Washington on Leadership

by Richard Brookhiser

reviewed by Jonathan Leaf

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The Milt Rosenberg Show: Free Speech in an age of Jihad
Roger Kimball, David Yezzi, and James Panero discuss the New Criterion special pamphlet "Free Speech in an Age of Jihad." From the Milt Rosenberg Show, WGN. Recorded live in the Chicago studios 8/14/2008.


Roger Kimball on liberalism's response to Islam
From an evening with the Illinois chapter of the Friends of The New Criterion. Recorded on 8/16/2008.


Encounter Books at 10, an interview with Roger Simon

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