The greatest of all novels
by Gary Saul Morson
On Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Features
Always I am Caesar
by Adrian Goldsworthy
A review of Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss.
Trumping right along
by James Piereson
A review of The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson.
Prophecies of democratic leveling
by Jacob Howland
On the philosophical foreseers of tyrannical equality.
Poems
Theater
Strange pairings
by Kyle Smith
On The Dance of Death at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater, True West at the American Airlines Theatre, and Nassim on Stage II at New York City Center.
Art
Tintoretto at 500
by Karen Wilkin
On retrospectives for the Venetian master.
Whistler in the dark
by Dominic Green
On “Whistler and Nature” at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Sculpture in the age of the 3D scan
by Charles Cronin
On controversies over scans of museum objects.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Paul du Quenoy
On “Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs” at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Norman’s conquest
by James Panero
On the expansion of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Elegy and Fire in my mouth at the New York Philharmonic; Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, and Seong-Jin Cho at Carnegie Hall; and Carmen at the Met Opera.
The media
Not the same as shame
by James Bowman
On the Covington Catholic affair.
Books
Notebook
Nathan Glazer, 1923—2019
by Fred Siegel
A remembrance of the sociologist.
Wendy Beckett, 1930—2018
by Daisy Dunn
A remembrance of the nun and popular art critic.
Notes & Comments
Decline & fall: classics edition
by The Editors
On identity politics in classical studies.