May 2005
The virtues of a Cambridge history
On the woeful failure of the new Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature.
On the woeful failure of the new Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature.
A note on David Pryce-Jones’s contribution to the May issue of Commentary magazine.
On the recent death of the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.
On some measures for restoring the American university to its founding principles.
On the offerings and merits of A New History of German Literature, edited by David Wellbery.
On the complexities of the human experience.
Robert Messenger takes stock of a remarkable literary achievement with W. W. Norton’s release of Patrick O’Brian’s Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels including the unfinished twenty-first.
On Spamalot, Broadway’s new “loving rip-off” of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
On “Greater New York 2005” at P.S. 1, Queens, New York.
On “Adrienne Farb” at Mary Ryan Gallery; “Graham Nickson: Painting” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; “Wayne Thiebaud Since 1962: A Survey” at the Allan Stone Gallery & “Thornton Willis & James Little: Raising the Bar” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn.
On Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci at the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the New York Philharmonic’s program of Bach and Messiaen, guest-conducted by Kent Nagano; Handel’s Orlando and Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at City Opera; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s “Postcard from Prague” program at Carnegie Hall; two Schubert concerts at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Valery Gergiev at Carnegie Hall.
On on the media’s strange responses to the death and legacy of Pope John Paul II.
A review of Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro; A Changed Man, by Francine Prose; American Purgatorio, by John Haskell; Saturday, by Ian McEwan; & Winslow in Love, by Kevin Canty.
On literary scandals real and trumped up.
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