June 2003
The New York Times at bay
On l’affaire Blair and the meltdown at our paper of dubious record.
On l’affaire Blair and the meltdown at our paper of dubious record.
Giving thanks to those people who make The New Criterion possible.
On the consequences of secular faiths.
On the British writer, television personality, and moral and religious gadfly Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge at 100.
Revisiting an essential author and an essential moment in American letters.
Britain can’t stop loving its Cambridge Spies, as a new documentary attests.
On “Gypsy.”
On Thomas Nozkowski at the New York Studio School Gallery, Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris at L.I.C.K., and John Walker and Helen Frankenthaler at Knoedler and Company.
Joel Shapiro at PaceWildenstein; Frank Stella at Paul Kasmin; George Segal at Mitchell-Innes & Nash & Roy Lichtenstein on the roof the Metropolitan Museum.
On the Easter Festival in Salzburg, at which the Berlin Philharmonic performed Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, Haydn’s “The Seasons,” Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
On the abscence of objectivity at American and British news agencies .
Reviews of The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds; Jelly Roll (A Blues) by Kevin Young; At The Palace Of Jove by Karl Kirchwey; Poems The Size Of Photographs by Les Murray; Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot; and Middle Earth by Henri Cole.
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