Issues
Volume 27, Number 10 / June 2009
Notes & Comments
June 2009
A word of thanks
Features
June 2009
The state despotic
On our gradual slide into servitude.
June 2009
The permanent transient
Santayana in his letters.
June 2009
Cheerfulness breaks in
On two new biographies of the incomparable Dr. Johnson.
June 2009
A Raphael “Madonna” restored
On the restoration of the Madonna del Cardellino at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Poems
June 2009
Three poems of Angelos Sikelianos, translated by A. E. Stallings
June 2009
The horse of Achilles
June 2009
On Acrocorinth
June 2009
Frieze
Manners & morals
June 2009
Marriage in our time
On matrimony in a culture of convenience.
Theater
June 2009
Joe Turner’s return
On The Death of a Salesman & Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
Art
June 2009
“Compass in Hand” at MoMA
On "Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Musuem of Modern Art, New York.
June 2009
Exhibition note
On "Second Empire Paris: History and Modernity" at Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
June 2009
Gallery chronicle
On Op Art, Gabriele Evertz at Metaphor Gallery, James Little at June Kelly Gallery & Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld Gallery.
Music
June 2009
New York chronicle
On Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Abbey Simon, Magdalena Kožená, and Christopher Prégardien & Michael Gees at Alice Tully Hall, Ricardo Muti with the New York Philharmonic; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, René Pape, and Pierre Boulez with the Staatskappelle Berlin at Carnegie Hall; Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock & Jonathan Manson at Zankel Hall; Bernard Haitink with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera.
The media
June 2009
Let the sky fall
On the new official language.
Verse chronicle
June 2009
You betcha!
On Ballistics by Billy Collins; Selected Poems by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler; Substrate by Jim A. Powell; The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt; Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove; and It Is Daylight by Arda Collins.
Notebook
June 2009
Always in the wrong place
On the relics of oppression.
Letters to the Editor
June 2009
Crucial points
A letter from Adam Sisman.
June 2009
Crucial points: A reply
A response from Jeffrey Meyers.
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