Religion in America: ancient & modern
by David B. Hart
The seventh in the series titled “Lengthened shadows.”
The seventh in the series titled “Lengthened shadows.”
On the American novelist Alan Furst, a first-rate genre writer with a penchant for romanticism.
On Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflection on Dealing with the Death Penalty by Scott Turow.
On the success of Poems and Translations, edited by Richard Sieburth, in revealing the polyphonic development of Ezra Pound’s works.
Paul Rudnick meditates on the gay aesthetic in Valhalla while Will Eno’s The Flu Season & Anne Washburn’s The Ladies battle for the crown of self-absorption.
On Susan Stroman’s new full-length ballet for the New York City Ballet.
On “Manet and the Sea” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which successfully brings together a widely separated collection of Manet paintings with a common theme.
On “A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino” at The Frick Collection.
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On Roberto Alagna, Juan Diego Florez, Frank Lapardo, Plácido Domingo, & Boris Godunov at the New York Metropolitan Opera House, the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Avery Fisher Hall & a five-day festival at Carnegie Hall sponsored by the Marilyn Horne Foundation.
On the mendacious accusations of the media & the rigorous scrutiny to which they should be held.
A review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950’s Through the 1990’s, by Norman Podhoretz, edited by Thomas L. Jeffers.
A review of James Knox, by Robert Byron.
A review of Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin.
A review of A Sad Affair, translated by Michael Hoffman.
Notes & Comments
A stupid party
by The Editors
On the liberal domination of the academy.
Prizes for everyone
by The Editors
On the abolition of the honor roll in Nashville’s public schools.
Strong stomach dept.
by The Editors
On Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint by Hélène Cixous.