Future tense, VII: What’s a museum?
by James Panero
On the changing nature of our cultural institutions.
Features
Dystopia in America
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On the stripping of liberties by progressives, as detailed by Mark R. Levin’s Ameritopia.
The new old lie
by Thomas Bruscino
On war art and the meaning of war.
Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul
by Richard Tillinghast
On Turkey’s most prominent novelist.
Poems
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Letters from the World
A grim & bleak beauty
by Anthony Daniels
On architecture and art in Coventry.
Theater
Angry young man on a ledge
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Other Desert Cities, Look Back in Anger, and Richard III.
Art
American art in New York
by Michael J. Lewis
On the Met and “Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy” at the New-York Historical Society.
Hands on, at the Walters
by Karen Wilkin
On “Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture” at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Modernism’s American musketeers
by Mario Naves
On “American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942” at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.
Music
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The morality of normality
by James Bowman
On sexuality, normalcy, and ethics.
Books
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Notebook
Ha Jin’s China
by Charles C. Johnson
On Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin.
Notes & Comments
The multicultural morass
by The Editors
On Western assimilation and the dangers of multiculturalism.
From the archives of the academy
by The Editors
From An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.