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Team players
by Denis Donoghue
On Shakespeare’s collaborations with other writers
All in the family
by Bruce Bawer
On the life and work of Marianne Moore
A chisel to write
by Paul Dean
The turbulent career of Basil Bunting
Dickinson’s nothings
by William Logan
Learning from Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems
Sound & sensibility
by David Yezzi
The musicality of Robert Frost
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On “Fatwa or free speech?,” a conference in Denmark.
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Season of the witch
by Laura Jacobs
An review of Angelin Preljocaj’s Spectral Evidence
Theater
What about Bob?
by Kevin D. Williamson
Reviews of Antony and Cleopatra, Breakfast with Mugabe, London Wall, and After Midnight
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Back to the future
by Karen Wilkin
On “Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe” at the Guggenheim, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Gauguin: Metamorphoses” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Turner and the Sea” at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On the “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, the “2014 Whitney Biennial” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and “Volta NY” at 82 Mercer Street, New York
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Architecture
Cross & Cross: transforming New York
by Peter Pennoyer
How two brothers reshaped the architectural landscape of New York.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Prince Igor, Werther, The Enchanted Island, the choir of Stetson University, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and more.
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The media
Negative side effects
by James Bowman
Red lines, empty threats, and the crisis in Ukraine
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Manners & Morals
“A light at the heart of the world”
by Emily Esfahani Smith
On the role of art in our secular age.
Notes & Comments
The New Criterion on poetry
by The Editors
On the current state of poetry
Soft power meets hard fact
by The Editors
The failings of a soft power approach to Russia