The busybody: the Duc de Saint-Simon remembers
by Joseph Epstein
On the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, newly translated by Lucy Norton.
On the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, newly translated by Lucy Norton.
On the lurking threat to the freedom of the airwaves.
On the impact and errors of Alan Sillitoe’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
On Alexei Ratmansky, Rabbit and Rogue at American Ballet Theatre, and Jupiter Symphony at Pennsylvania Ballet.
On Of Thee I Sing at Bard Summerscape, and The Understudy & Broke-ology at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
On “Take Your TIme: Olafur Eliasson” at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, “The New York City Waterfalls” along the East River, and other public art in the city.
On “Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness and the Art of Painting Softly” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown.
On “From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete 3000–1100 B.C.” at the Onassis Cultural Center, New York.
On Jacob Collins’s Hudson River School for Landscape.
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On Showboat at Carnegie Hall, “Summertime Classics” with the New York Philharmonic, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival at Mannes, “Pedals and Pumps: A Festival of Organ Divas” at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.
On Niall Ferguson’s “The War of the World” on PBS.
On Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray and Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Human Life by Anthony Kronman.
On The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis.
On Invasions by Adam Kirsch.
On the death of the author and poet.
On David Lebedoff’s The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War.
Notes & Comments
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008
by The Editors
On the death of the great Russian writer.
The Georgian imperative
by The Editors
On the crisis in the Caucasus.
Welcome Standpoint
by The Editors
On the new British periodical.