Features
Restoring justice
by Robert Bork
An excerpt from Robert H. Bork’s forthcoming memoir, Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General (Encounter Books).
The innocence of Robert H. Bork
by Andrew C. McCarthy
How Washington cheated a celebrated jurist out of a Supreme Court nomination.
Frank Furness, rational rogue
by Michael J. Lewis
Reconsidering the “rogue” architecture of Frank Furness.
“WE MUST BE FUNNY!!!!!!”
by Robert Messenger
On the letters of P. G. Wodehouse.
The French connection
by Anthony Daniels
On relations between the French intelligentsia and the Soviets.
Poems
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Reconsiderations
Iris Murdoch’s “Marsyas”
by Jeffrey Meyers
Reexamining Iris Murdoch, her love of culture, and Marsyas.
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Theater
Comedy & condescension
by Kevin D. Williamson
On The Heiress, Dead Accounts, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Art
Inventing abstraction at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Go F!GURE: Contemporary Chinese Portraiture” at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Lois Dodd: Selected Panel Paintings” at Alexandre Gallery, “Paul Resika: 8+8, Eight Paintings from Eight Decades” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, “Paul Resika: 8+8, Eight Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, “Mario Naves: Recent Paintings” and “Brett Baker: Paintings” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, and “Sharon Butler: Precisionist Casual” at Pocket Utopia.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Les Troyens, Maria Stuarda, preformances by Jan Lisiecki, Jean-Yves Thinbaudet, Pinchas Zukerman, the Emerson String Quartet, and more.
The media
Outrage against the machine
by James Bowman
On “Plebgate,” leaks, and journalistic failings.
Books
Notebook
The conservative queen
by Andrew Roberts
On the conservative ways of the Queen Mother.
Notes & Comments
Moody’s vs. higher ed
by The Editors
More on the crisis in higher education.
Robert H. Bork, 1927—2012
by The Editors
Remembering the late jurist, Robert H. Bork.
Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921—2013
by The Editors
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic.