March 2006
Craven at the BBC
A curious practice at the BBC.
A curious practice at the BBC.
What’s wrong with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
On the (former) president of Harvard.
What is the major problem with democracy?
On Auden’s religious beliefs, and Arthur Kirsch’s “Auden & Christianity.”
On Michel Houellebecq’s commercialized despair.
On Henry James’s great political novel.
On the Centre Pompidou’s “Creation and Destruction in Twentieth-Century Art.”
On G. K. Chesterton’s least successful novel.
On the passing of the playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
On “Cézanne in Provence” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“David Smith: A Centennial” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
On Edvard Munch at MoMA and the Scandinavia House; Kentridge at the Marian Goodman; William Nicholson at Paul Kasmin; Jake Berthot at Betty Cuningham & Lois Dodd at Alexandre Gallery.
On the latest in the New York music scene.
Why the BBC is wishing peace on the Prophet.
The legacy of Susan Sontag.
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