Emotions of virtue
by Roger Kimball
The tenth in a series titled Reflections on a Cultural Revolution.
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Confessional poetry & the artifice of honesty
by David Yezzi
On the legacy of confessional poetry, occasioned by Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters
The problem of democratic history
by Keith Windschuttle
On History on Trial: Culture Wars & the Teaching of History by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn & the debate over history curricula
Victor Hugo: the dangerous master
by Renee Winegarten
A review of Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb
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Poems
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The emperor of ice cream
by John Gross
On Tony Blair & the current cultural situation in Britain
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Theater
Oscar nominations
by Mark Steyn
On The Judas Kiss by David Hare
Art
Soutine at the Jewish Museum
by Mario Naves
On An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum, New York
out of interstitials
Music
The Kirov opera at the Met
by John Simon
On the Kirov Opera Festival at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
out of interstitials
The media
Politics about nothing
by James Bowman
On recent developments in the tobacco wars
out of interstitials
Verse chronicle
Soiled desires
by William Logan
On Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, Wakefulness by John Ashbery, Desire by Frank Bidart, The Engrafted Word by Karl Kirchwey, Going Fast by Frederick Seidel & Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler
out of interstitials
Books
An old gypsy nature
by Ben Downing
Review of Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Ernest Mehew
The real Greenberg
by Karen Wilkin
Review of Clement Greenberg: A Life by Florence Rubenfeld
A vibrant Teutonic strain
by J. Duncan Berry
Review of The Werkbund: Design Theory & Mass Culture Before the First World War by Frederic J. Schwartz
Bad marriages
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan.
Notebook
Activism & architecture: a tale of two cities
by Michael J. Lewis
On the symposium Reassessing ’68 in New York & Paris: Activism, Architecture & the Academy at Columbia University
Notes & Comments
Marxism as farce
by The Editors
On the recent edition of The Communist Manifesto by Verso
Weirdo studies
by The Editors
On the women’s studies program at Yale University