Homer in the tropics
by Alexander Suebsaeng
On teaching classics at Kamuzu Academy in Malawi.
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Piano plays Harvard
by Peter Pennoyer
A review of the new Harvard Art Museums, designed by Renzo Piano.
A kingdom in splinters
by Eric Ormsby
Traditional philology today is a shadow of what it once was. Can it survive?
The epic of Ezra
by Paul Dean
A review of A. David Moody’s Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921–1939.
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Barbarians among the ruins
by Anthony Daniels
On the sad state of the West English town.
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Reconsiderations
Fun facts & fascism
by Sarah Ruden
Revisiting the lessons from Rick Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn
Theater
Unhappy families
by Andrew Stuttaford
Reviews of Titus Andronicus at SoHo’s HERE Arts Center, A Month in the Country at Classic Stage Company & Let the Right One In at Dumbo’s St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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Who was John Quinn?
by Karen Wilkin
A look back on John Quinn’s life and work.
Exhibition notes
by Mario Naves
On “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition notes
by Christie Davies
On “Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Alexandre Tharaud, the Mariinsky Orchestra of Saint Petersburg & more.
The media
The irony of PC
by James Bowman
On Jonathan Chait’s recent piece in New York Magazine
Books
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Monet’s magpie in the snow
by Jeffrey Meyers
A new interpretation of Monet’s great work.
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In praise of red ink
by The Editors
Our inability to speak freely makes it impossible to comprehend the dangerous realities we face.