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On Jerome Robbins’s famous Dybbuk.
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No place
by Brooke Allen
On Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center.
Art
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by Karen Wilkin
On “High Times/Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975” at the National Academy, New York.
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by Marco Grassi
On “George Stubbs: A Celebration” at the Frick Collection, New York.
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The New York fairs
by James Panero
On “The Armory Show: International Fair of New Art” at Pier 94 and “The Art Show” at the Seventh Regiment Armory.
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by Jay Nordlinger
On Hilary Hahn at Carnegie Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, and James Levine conducting Meistersinger at the Metropolitan Opera.
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by James Bowman
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by Paul Dean
On Craig Raine’s T. S. Eliot.
Hypocrite lecteur
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On Pierre Bayard’s Comment parler des livres que n’on la pas lus.
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by Douglas Murray
On Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel.
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by Jeffrey Meyers
On Adam Sisman’s The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge.
M is for messy
by Martin Gardner
On Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next and Peter Woit’s Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law.
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Revisiting “Catalonia” again
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A letter from Stephen Schwartz.
Revisiting “Catalonia” again
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