April 2004
“Neville again”
On the heinous bombings in Madrid and their despicable consequences.
On the heinous bombings in Madrid and their despicable consequences.
On the degradation of high-culture in the UK’s most respectable publications and institutions. Can it get more depressing in the US?
On the loss of a great friend and contributor to The New Criterion.
On this month’s extended poetry issue.
On the distinctive state of poetry in America. The eighth of our series “Lengthened shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-first Century.”
On the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop & the “important but elusive aspects of contemporary literary culture” that her canonization has revealed.
On the complexity & significance of Anthony Hecht’s “moral orientation.”
On the survival & well-being of the three voices of contemporary poetry as proposed by T. S. Eliot.
On the ubiquitous subject of crime & prostitution in the literary world.
Mark Steyn examines the new stage designs in, and context of, Leveaux’s revival of Fiddler.
On “Gauguin Tahiti” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, & its successful attempt to dismiss many of the myths concerning Gaugins’s travels to the South Pacific.
On the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw at Carnegie Hall & Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie Hall.
On Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera House.
On the “po-mo primary” & “the seductive Siren-song” underlying the democratic party’s views on the war against terrorism.
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