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Returning to “The Gulag”
by Natalia Solzhenitsyn
Excerpt from the introduction to the newly-abridged Russian version of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Are you in?
by F. H. Buckley
On Obama as Weber’s charismatic leader, and the decline in constitutional governance.
Horton Foote’s staying power
by Brooke Allen
On the creative prowess of playwright Horton Foote.
Speaking for Homer
by John Talbot
On translation and a trio of recent versions of the Iliad.
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Poems
Letters from the World
Gray’s sterility
by Anthony Daniels
On Eileen Gray and her cold aesthetic.
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Theater
Not shallow, just not that deep
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Bullet for Adolf, Triassic Parq, and Peter and the Starcatcher.
Art
Arcadia in Philadelphia
by Karen Wilkin
On “Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On “The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed” at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960” at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Exhibition note
by Charles S. Dameron
On “Churchill: The Power of Words” at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Exhibition note
by David Yezzi
On “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series” at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The new political art
by James Panero
On Ai Weiwei, Pussy Riot, and the right way to do political art.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Yeol Eum Sol at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival, Feng Yi Tang, and the Mostly Mozart Festival.
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The media
The dignity of scandal
by James Bowman
On patriotism, dignity, and their role in modern politics.
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Books
Notebook
Gore Vidal, 1925—2012
by John Simon
On the passing of the writer.
Notes & Comments
The fourth decade
by The Editors
Politics & the BBC
by The Editors