May 2003
A new generation’s fools
On the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
On the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
On top literary theorists admitting the inanity of their craft.
On the sympathies of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
On the closing of Partisan Review.
On the philosopher’s record of defending authoritarian regimes.
On “The Dia Generation”: More silliness from The New York Times.
Reflections on growing up in a communist household.
On “O Jerusalem,” by A. R. Gurney.
On “Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
On “Nell Blaine, Artist in the World: Works from the 1950s” at Tibor de Nagy.
On “Titian” at the National Gallery, London.
On the ACO’s Dennis Russell Davies, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Point-Counterpoint: Bach’s Art of the Fugue;” the opera “love couple” Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) and Roberto Alagna (tenor), and Mstislav Rostropovich’s “Slava and Friends” at the New York Philharmonic.
On a recent development in vocal performance.
Examining the case of Eason Jordan, the chief news executive of CNN who boasted to The New York Times of withholding news information in order to appease the former Iraqi regime.
A review of The Interpreter, by Suki Kim; Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo; The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers; The Commissariat of Enlightenment, by Ken Kalfus & The Hazards of Good Breeding, by Jessica Shattuck.
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