The moral consequences of impatience
by John O’Sullivan
The tenth in a series titled: The Betrayal of Liberalism.
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Theater
Saying nothing, at great length
by Mark Steyn
On the Tony Awards.
Art
Goya in Philadelphia
by Karen Wilkin
On Goya: Another Look at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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by Mario Naves
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On Hans Hofmann at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Architecture
The Guggenheim in Bilbao
by Michael J. Lewis
On the Spanish museum’s architectural journey.
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The media
Gestural politics
by James Bowman
On empty gestures abound.
Verse chronicle
Vanity fair
by William Logan
On On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich, The Lost Land
by Eavan Boland, Vita Nova by Louise Glück, Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes, A Kiss in Space by Mary Jo Salter & Autobiography of Red:
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“A jelly minus its mould”
by Ben Downing
A working life
by Claude Rawson
Abhorring a vacuum
by Paul Dean
Review of Shakespeare: A Life by Park Honan
A feeling of disjunction
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
A shameful book
by Stephen Schwartz
Book notes
by Christopher Carduff
On Heshel’s Kingdom by Dan Jacobson & A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold by Ian Hamilton
Notes & Comments
Over the line at Wesleyan
by The Editors
On a class in pornography at Wesleyan University.
Incontinent moralism
by The Editors
On Susan Sontag and the war in Kosovo.