“The Idiot” savant
by Gary Saul Morson
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
On Russian kleptocracy.
On the fledgling musical career of Alma Deutscher.
On “Rivers of Blood” at fifty.
A review of David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth.
On Angels in America at the Neil Simon Theatre, Lobby Hero at the Helen Hayes Theater & Harry Clarke at the Minetta Lane Theater.
On “Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body (1300–Now)” at the Met Breuer.
On “Cézanne Portraits” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
On “Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
On “Leon Golub: Raw Nerve” at the Met Breuer.
On “Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On “Wayne Thiebaud: 1958–1968” at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
On “Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy” at Tate Modern, London.
On “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth” at The Broad, Los Angeles, “James Little: Slants and White Paintings” at June Kelly Gallery, “John Bradford: Hamilton, History, Lincoln and Paint” at Anna Zorina Gallery & “David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]” at Pace, New York.
On a new violin concerto, stagings at the Metropolitan Opera, and concerts by the Bavarian State Opera, led by Kirill Petrenko.
On recent developments in the world of media.
On Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, Theory of Shadows by Paolo Maurensig, A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré & The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Koreaby Bandi.
On the literary accomplishments of Denis Johnson.
On the poetry of Debora Greger.
On poetic criticism.
Notes & Comments
Annals of leftist autophagy
by The Editors
On Leftist friendly fire at the Brooklyn Museum.
Holy Cross-dressing
by The Editors
On the perverted scholarship of a religious studies professor.