Does shame have a future?
by Roger Kimball
On Professor Martha Nussbaum’s polemic against shame and disgust & why these emotions “are accomplices, not impediments, to that attack on hubris.”
On Professor Martha Nussbaum’s polemic against shame and disgust & why these emotions “are accomplices, not impediments, to that attack on hubris.”
On Michael Barber’s unauthorized Anthony Powell: A Life.
On Francesco Petrarch’s love, hate, and precision of feeling.
On a persistent misunderstanding of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
On Mayor Livingstone’s embrace of Dr. al-Qaradawi & Islamophobia as “the most dangerous of current social evils.”
On Gregory Boyd’s revival of Noel Coward’s Design for Living, three one-act plays by Michael John LaChiusa & Nicholas Martin’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
On “‘Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!’: The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
On Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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On a final batch of conductors from the series titled Great Conductors of the 20th Century including Eduard van Beinum, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, Sergiu Celibidache, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini & George Szell.
On “the precipitous decline in the quality and intelligence of the political dialogue in our democracy.”
A review of Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
A review of The Expert versus the Object: Judging Fakes & False Attributions in the Visual Arts, edited by Ronald D. Spencer.
A review of The Case of Comrade Tulayev, by Victor Serge, translated by Willard R. Trask, introduction by Susan Sontag.
A review of Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up, by Barbara Feinberg.
A review of Reliquiæ Trotcosienses, by Sir Walter Scott.
A review of Multitude, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s second collaboration.
On a new printing of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason.
A review of Hotel Bemelmans, from the author best known for his Madeline books.
A review of Americans in Paris, the new Library of America anthology.
On the passing of Kermit Swiler Champa, an art historian and professor of art history at Brown University.
Notes & Comments
“Exceptionally tasteful?”
by The Editors
On the vanishing distinction between the “transgressive” and the “merely repellent” at SITE Santa Fe.
Meanwhile in the ivory tower
by The Editors
On the new trend of “casino and gambling majors” in universities across the country.
Ave et vale
by The Editors
On a few staff changes here at The New Criterion.
Donald Justice, 1925-2004
by The Editors
On the passing of a poet and a long time contributor to The New Criterion.