The kingdom of Never-to-be
by Eric Ormsby
On Walter de la Mare.
Features
Heaney in love
by Adam Kirsch
On the love poetry of Seamus Heaney.
A forgotten poet
by William Logan
On John Townsend Trowbridge.
Rudyard Kipling unburdened
by Roger Kimball
On the much-abused imperial poet.
Grammars of a possible world
by David Yezzi
On the New Critics, then & now.
Poems
The “Darter” & the “Dace,” the way I wish he’d told it
by Michael Spence
A poem by Michael Spence.
Eve in the fall
by Debora Greger
A poem by Debora Greger.
Hindsight
by Bill Coyle
A poem by Bill Coyle.
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Theater
Signs of the times
by Brooke Allen
On Conversations in Tusculum at the Public Theater, The Cherry Orchard Sequel at LaMaMa ETC., Gray Area at the Barrow Group, and Next to Normal at the Second Stage Theater.
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Art
Arcadia at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “The 2008 Biennial Exhibition” at the Whitney Museum; “Moon Birds” at Knoedler & Company & “Seven Deadly Sins & Recent Works by Jamie Wyeth” at Adelson Galleries.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Otello at the Metropolitan Opera, the Kronos Quartet in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
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The media
Blurring the lines
by James Bowman
On the continuing feud between Senators Obama and Clinton.
Books
The sound of silence
by Anthony Daniels
On Manifesto for Silence: Confronting the Politics and Culture
of Noise by Stuart Sim.
Baring’s collapse
by Ben Downing
On Maurice Baring: Letters, edited by Jocelyn Hillgarth & Julian Jeffs.
American pastoral
by Michael J. Lewis
On George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné by Michael Quick.
Ye same olde story
by Stefan Beck
On All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka.
Disappointment artists
by Alexander Nazaryan
On Poems of the Late T’ang, translated by A. C. Graham.
Sir Isaac’s ocean
by Martin Gardner
On Newton by Peter Ackroyd.
Eminent essayists
by Alexandra Mullen
On The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Shorter notice
by Jennifer Oh
On Cries in the Drizzle by Yu Hua.
Notes & Comments
William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008
by The Editors
On the late founder of National Review.
Spitzer: born-again Leninist
by The Editors
On the recently resigned Governor of New York.
The New Criterion on poetry
by The Editors
On the 2008 poetry issue.
David Mamet grows up
by The Editors
On a “brain-dead liberal’s“ epiphany.