May 2019
“Massive retaliation”: the only answer
On Roger Scruton’s removal from Britain’s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission.
On Roger Scruton’s removal from Britain’s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission.
Remembering our friend and frequent contributor.
Andrew Roberts’s remarks at the seventh annual Edmund Burke Award Gala.
A review of Philip Larkin: Letters Home, edited by James Booth.
A review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch.
On the year in dance.
On Isaiah Berlin and his friends and family.
On Nantucket Sleigh Ride at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Rep, and The Cradle Will Rock at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater.
On “The C. C. Land Exhibition: Bonnard: The Colour of Memory” at Tate Modern, London.
On “Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture” at the Frick Collection, New York.
On “The Bauhaus and Harvard,” at The Busch-Reisinger Museum.
On “Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
On the new Hudson Yards development in New York.
On Jean Rondeau; Zhao Lin at the New York Philharmonic; Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis, and Daniel Müller-Schott; Thomas Adès; and Juho Pohjonen.
On self-parody and coverage of the Mueller report.
On Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason; The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths of Cumberland County, by Mason Ball; 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno; Article 35: A Novel, by Tanguy Viel; and Rock and Roll Is Life, by D. J. Taylor.
Highlights from a lifetime of reading.
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