History repeating itself: liberalism and foreign policy
by Robert Kagan
The eighth in a series titled The Betrayal of Liberalism.
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“No other book”: Randall Jarrell’s criticism
by Brad Leithauser
On the poet’s bold legacy.
Eça de Queirós
by Alexander Coleman
On the influential Portuguese novelist.
Max Beckmann & the school in Paris
by Karen Wilkin
On Beckmann and Paris at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
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Theater
No business like show business
by Mark Steyn
On Annie Get Your Gun.
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Art
An observer of charms & hurts: Dosso of Ferrara
by Creighton Gilbert
On Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The media
The women come & go
by James Bowman
On self-concept in the media.
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Fiction chronicle
Illustrations of inertia & compromise
by Brooke Allen
On Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden & Charlotte Gray: A Novel by Sebastian Faulks.
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Books
New prose for old
by Joseph Epstein
On The New Oxford English Book of Prose, edited by John Gross
Prosody atrocities
by Robert Richman
Review of All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Timothy Steele
Bunk & braggadocio
by Ben Downing
On Lord Byron’s Jackal by David Crane
Book notes
by Christopher Carduff
On The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Under Gemini by Isabel Bolton & Zarafa by Michael Allen
Notebook
Repeating the old lies
by Jeffrey Meyers
On conflicting accounts of the Spanish Civil War.
Notes & Comments
Product placement
by The Editors
On brand names in textbooks.
Deviant child
by The Editors
On the mainstreaming of pornography.