Nothing succeeds like failure
by Joseph Epstein
On Cyril Connolly and “promise.”
Features
A common what?: the limits of reconciliation
by Sarah Ruden
On the Christian-Muslim “A Common Word Between Us and You” at Yale.
Herodotus’s wheel
by Barry Strauss
On Robert Strassler’s The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories.
Prokofiev abroad
by John Simon
On the diaries of Sergey Prokofiev.
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Beside the golden door
by Stefan Beck
On All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, A Mercy by Toni Morrison, Home by Marilynne Robinson, and Netherland by Joseph O’Neill.
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The best & worst of times
by Brooke Allen
On A Tale of Two Cities at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 13 at the Jacobs Theatre, Equus at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Art
Van Gogh at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958” at the McMullen Museum, Boston College.
Exhibition note
by Anthony Daniels
On “Black Is Beautiful” at De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the opening of the season of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
The media
Carefully crafted narratives
by James Bowman
On the continuing reappearance of the “end of capitalism” idea.
Books
The house in his mind
by Eric Ormsby
On the collected novels and stories of William Maxwell.
The anti-historian
by David Pryce-Jones
The houses Pugin built
by Roger Sandall
Small acts of disdain
by Theodore Dalrymple
On Mrs. Woolf & the Servants: An Intimate History of Bloomsbury by Alison Light.
The price we pay
by Martin Gardner
Faking it
by Marco Grassi
On The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez.
Tapping them veins
by Colin Fleming
On The Golden Volcano by Jules Verne.
The black holes of BHL
by James Bowman
On the “War, Evil, and America Now” symposium at Skidmore College.
Notes & Comments
Sun set
by The Editors
On the close of The New York Sun.
The New Criterion awards
by The Editors
On the second New Criterion benefit art auction.