October 2004
No Lapham matter
On Lewis H. Lapham’s recent article titled “Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill”; a fantasy of disturbing proportions.
On Lewis H. Lapham’s recent article titled “Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill”; a fantasy of disturbing proportions.
On U. S. foreign policy in the post-Cold-War world.
Who will be the next assoluta in the ballet world?
On the cult of Ernesto Che Guevara; irrational reflection “kept alive by a good dose of commercialism.”
On two “schools” of reading “the mother of all novels.”
On John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps.
On Nicolas Kent and Sacha Wares’s New York production of Guantanamo & William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony at the Helen Hayes.
On “Scott LoBaido” at Tribute Gallery; Will Cotton at Mary Boone Chelsea Gallery; “Modern Masters” at Salander-O’Reilly; “Lois Dodd: Flashings” at Alexandre Gallery; Joan Mitchell at Mary Ryan Gallery; “Under the Influence” at Barbara Mathes Gallery & Ai Weiwei at Robert Miller Gallery.
On this year’s Salzburg Festival, including the Czech Philharmonic and Chorus conducted by Gerd Albrecht, a recital by singer Violeta Urmana, and Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt.
On “the absence of any shame in self-contradiction among our journalistic and political controversialists today”
On the passing of Czeslaw Milosz, “a writer of multiple achievements but also a prophet of liberation for whom the individual exercise of disabused memory came to constitute a spiritual vocation.”
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