The Left against Zion
by Dominic Green
On the intellectual left and Israel.
Features
Unpleasant Ibsen
by Brooke Allen
A review of Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask, by Ivo de Figueiredo.
The denunciation machine
by J. Christian Adams
On the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Senses of the past
by Paul Dean
A review of The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism, by Stefan Collini.
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The Brexit bust
by Simon Heffer
On Theresa May’s failures of leadership.
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Dance
Passionate intensity
by Laura Jacobs
On “Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance with David Hallberg.”
Theater
Brush up your Shakespeare
by Kyle Smith
On Kiss Me, Kate at Studio 54, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at the Booth Theatre, and King Lear at the Cort Theatre.
Art
Spilling over at the Whitney
by Karen Wilkin
On “Spilling Over: Painting in Color in the 1960s” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Moore & Moore
by Eric Gibson
On “Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads” at the Wallace Collection, London, and “Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing” at the Henry Moore Foundation.
Monsters & manifestos
by Andrew L. Shea
On “Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art and “Joan Miró: Birth of the World” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Carolyn Stewart
On “The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists” at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “The Self-Portrait, from Schiele to Beckmann” at The Neue Galerie, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline” at Gagosian, “De Kooning: Five Decades” at Mnuchin Gallery, and “Lucian Freud: Monumental” at Acquavella Galleries.
Architecture
The past & future of Notre-Dame
by Peter Pennoyer
On the preservation and reconstruction of the cathedral of Notre-Dame.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Thomas Larcher and the New York Philharmonic; Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuja Wang, and the New World Symphony; and Katia and Marielle Labèque.
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Report from an alternative universe
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On partisan views of the Mueller report.
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Down by the Old Mill Stream
by William Logan
On recent poetry.
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Notebook
Paul Hollander, 1932—2019
by Daniel J. Mahoney
A remembrance of the Hungarian writer and frequent New Criterion contributor.
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Restoring the lost consensus
by The Editors
From Roger Kimball’s acceptance remarks at the Bradley Prize ceremony.
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