D’Souza goes native
by Scott W. Johnson
On Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11.
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The old devil
by Mark Steyn
On Zachary Leader’s new biography of Kingsley Amis.
Chez Proust
by John Simon
On recently published Proustiana.
A dime store Jane Austen
by Robert Messenger
On the letters of Martha Gellhorn.
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Stepson of the time
by Michael Weiss
On Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
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Theater
Sufficient goals
by Brooke Allen
On Frank’s Home, The Fever, A Spanish Play, and Translations.
Art
The other Matisse
by Karen Wilkin
On “Matisse: Painter as Sculptor” at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.
Exhibition note
by Nola Tully
On “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-1946” at the International Center of Photography.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Picturing Artists (1950s-1960s): Photographs by Dan Budnik” at Knoedler & Company; “John Morra: Recent Paintings” at Hirschl & Adler Galleries; “Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction; Paintings and Drawings (1944-1959)” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery & “Al Pounders: Recent Work” at Allen Stone Gallery.
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New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Hindemith’s long-lost Piano Music with Orchestra, Op. 29, the New York String Orchestra’s performance of Joan Tower’s Made in America, Bernard Labadie conducting the New York Philharmonic, the abridged English version of Julie Taymor’s Magic Flute production at the Metropolitan Opera, Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, and the Cassatt String Quartet.
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The media
Time on the cross of hype
by James Bowman
On the circus surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
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Books
Arc of surrender
by James Como
On The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis.
Vale, Vidal
by Joseph Rago
On Gore Vidal’s Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006.
The holiday in his eye
by Stefan Beck
On Richard Ford’s The Lay of the Land
Finding his way
by Anthony Daniels
On Nick Cohen’s What’s Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way.
Classic spin
by Barry Strauss
On Paul Cartledge’s Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World.
The escape artist
by Alexander Nazaryan
On Andrew Burstein’s The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving.
Letters to the Editor
Revisiting
by Christopher Hitchens
A letter from Christopher Hitchens.
Revisiting “Catalonia”: A Reply
by Anthony Daniels
A response from Anthony Daniels.
Notes & Comments
Nasty, brutish, but tolerant
by The Editors
On “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Meanwhile at the BBC
by The Editors
On Britain’s state-funded broadcaster, up to its usual tricks.
The politics of correction
by The Editors
On the interesting policies of The New York Times.
MOMA & money
by The Editors
On the enviable position of a museum director.