“The present is history” conducting culture at Bard
by Roger Kimball
On the academic and artistic culture.
Features
All that jazz
by Bruce Bawer
On the literary career of Toni Morrison.
Fire & ice: Aulis Sallinen’s “Kullervo”
by John Simon
On Finland’s art.
The “politics” of Anthony Powell
by Terry Teachout
On Anthony Powell’s legacy.
Pantagruelism for our time? Rabelais reconsidered
by D. S. Carne-Ross
On genius writing.
Poems
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Music
A tale of two orchestras
by Samuel Lipman
On why conductors make a difference.
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Art
Breakthrough, idyll, icon, allegory
by Jed Perl
On “Allegories of Modernism” at MOMA & other shows.
Theater
Schiller & other exhumations
by Donald Lyons
On Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart & other plays.
Books
Song of himself: Harold Bloom on God
by Marc M. Arkin
What was the question?
by James Bowman
A review of The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble.
A poet’s poet
by Dana Gioia
The great Galician novel
by Lauren Weiner
A review of The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán.
The omelet of A. MacLeish
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Archibald MacLeish: An American Life by Scott Donaldson.
The political Delacroix
by Karen Wilkin
A review of Eugène Delacroix by Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer.
Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
Regarding Mozart and the modern piano, and a note on e.e. cummings.
Notes & Comments
A Pulitzer for liberal piety
by The Editors
Deutsche Grammophon’s “All★Stars Cards”
by The Editors