Saintly institutions? Notes on a common prejudice
by Roger Kimball
On some “saintly” and “demonized” institutions and individuals.
On some “saintly” and “demonized” institutions and individuals.
On the gifted and troublesome Truman Capote.
On the lessons of suffering we can learn from Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts.
On the passing of the American master Donald Justice and “an eminent generation of American poets.”
On the self-affirmed beliefs of intellectuals.
On “In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India: Selections from the Polsky Collections and Metropolitan Museum of Art” at the New York Asia Society.
On “Inventions: Recent Paintings by Caio Fonseca” at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; “Caio Fonseca, New Paintings” at Paul Kasmin Gallery; “Richmond Burton” at Cheim & Read; “Louisa Matthiasdottir: A Retrospective” at Scandinavia House, New York; “Giorgio Morandi, Paintings 1950-“1964” at Lucas Schoormans & “Rackstraw Downes, New Paintings” at Betty Cuningham Gallery.
On the opening of the New York Philharmonic’s 2004-2005 season under Lorin Maazel, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center under new artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han, the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Traviata, Daphne and Platée at New York City Opera & Otello and Carmen under James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Don Giovianni, Simon Boccanegra, Beatrice and Benedict, Agrippina & La Sonnambula at the Santa Fe Opera.
On the rise of the “multiculturalist” curriculum and its damages.
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A review of Villages, by John Updike; The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth; Oblivion: Stories, by David Foster Wallace; & Heir to the Glimmering World, by Cynthia Ozick.
A review of Metamorphoses, by Ovid, translated and with notes by Charles Martin; introduction by Bernard Knox.
A review of A Mighty Fortress: A New History of German People, by Steven Ozment.
A review of Ulysses S. Grant, by Josiah Bunting III.
A review of The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity, by Stanley Crouch.
A review of The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy, by T. R. Reid.
A review of Many Are Called, by Walker Evans, introduction by James Agee, foreword by Luc Sante, afterword by Jeff L. Rosenheim.
A review of T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker.
On the passing of Thom Gunn, a poet who welcomed “Eliot’s ideal of ‘impersonality’ and scorning ‘confessional’ poetry as well as overmuch theory.”
Notes & Comments
Derrida declawed
by The Editors
On the unsurprisingly pious eulogizing of Jacques Derrida who died last month at 74.
What were they thinking?
by The Editors
On the choice of Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian novelist and playwright, as this year’s Nobel laureate for literature.