The cure for Bernard Shaw
by Anthony Daniels
On the crank medical theories of George Bernard Shaw.
Features
The sensation of liberty
by Michael Weiss
On the oft-forgotten historian Tibor Szamuely.
Mozart’s Linnaeus
by James F. Penrose
On Ludwig Alois Friedrich von Köchel, compiler of the Köchelverzeichnis.
Trollope & the law
by Marc M. Arkin
On the Victorian novelist and the moral question of defending the guilty.
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Danish lessons
by Paul Hollander
On anti-Americanism and a visit to Scandinavia.
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Reconsiderations
Daniel Fuchs: “A man must make money”
by Martin Greenberg
On the novelist and screenwriter Daniel Fuchs.
Theater
All the world’s a stage
by Brooke Allen
On Opus at 59E59, Xanadu at the Helen Hayes Theater, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare in the Park, and Frost/Nixon at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.
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Art
Notes on color field painting
by Karen Wilkin
On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.”
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On “Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception” at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Exhibition note
by David Yezzi
On “Edward Hopper” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Masterpieces of Art: Five Centuries of Painting and Sculpture” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; “Michael Goldberg: New Paintings” at Knoedler & Company & “Duncan Hannah: Wanderlust” at James Graham & Sons.
Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Haydn’s Armida, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, and Weber’s Der Freischütz.
The media
A public blogging
by James Bowman
On humiliating punishments and the media’s obsession with hypocrisy.
Books
Campbell’s soup
by Andrew Stuttaford
On The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alistair Campbell
Diaries by Alistair Campbell.
The old Schell game
by Victor Davis Hanson
On The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell.
Design for living
by Paul Gross
On The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe.
Not saying anything
by Paul Dean
Birth of a despot
by Alexander Nazaryan
On Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Being Hamsun
by Jennifer Oh
On Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun.
Notes & Comments
Dartmouth & the Brezhnev doctrine
by The Editors
On the Dartmouth administration’s plan to reassert control of the board of trustees.
At last! The Hamilton Institute
by The Editors
On the long-awaited execution of the much-maligned proposal at Hamilton College.