The cultural war on Western civilization
by Keith Windschuttle
The fifth in the series “The survival of culture.”
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Features
The strange case of D.S. Mirsky
by Hilton Kramer
On the writer, occasioned by the publication of D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939, by G. S. Smith.
Laurence Sterne
by Brooke Allen
On the author, upon the publication of Laurence Sterne: A Life, by Ian Campbell Ross.
The asymmetrical George Moore
by Richard Tillinghast
On George Moore, 1852-1933 by Adrian Frazier.
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Poems
Theater
A trifle & a substantial
by Mark Steyn
On 45 Seconds from Broadway, by Neil Simon & [sic], by Melissa James Gibson.
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Art
New York’s newest gem: the Neue Galerie
by Karen Wilkin
On the gallery’s exciting features.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Wagner’s Die Meistersinger at the Met, Renée Fleming & Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie Hall, Ewa Podles & Garrick Ohlsson at Alice Tully Hall, Neeme Jarvi with the New York Philharmonic & the Met’s Arabella by Strauss.
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The media
Their pretty little heads
by James Bowman
On women writing about politics.
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Books
Isaac Babel’s genre of silence
by Gary Saul Morson
A review of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel.
A lost lady
by Jeffrey Hart
A review of When Men Were the Only Models We Had by Carolyn G. Heilbrun.
All that glisters
by Paul Dean
A review of Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart.
The age of bad ideas
by John Derbyshire
A review of Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple.
At home abroad
by Roger Kimball
A review of Letters from England by Karel Capek.
Notebook
Oscar: six acts at the Morgan
by John Simon
On Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts at the Morgan Library.
Notes & Comments
The struggles of Anthony Lewis
by The Editors
On the departure of Mr. Lewis from the New York Times.
Everybody’s doing it
by The Editors
On the Sara Jane Olson trial.