The burden of the humanities
by Wilfred M. McClay
On grasping human things in human terms.
Features
Popular song as populist revolt
by Victor Davis Hanson
On Oliver Anthony’s hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” & its detractors.
Blanquette de Bard
by Anthony Daniels
On White People in Shakespeare edited by Arthur L. Little Jr. & The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper.
The polymorphous Mr. Peretz
by Myron Magnet
On The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center by Martin Peretz.
Poems
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Dance
What ballet is
by Lincoln Jones
On dancing & diversity.
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Theater
Black comedy
by Kyle Smith
On Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding & The Refuge Plays.
Art
An inevitable rivalry
by James Panero
On “Manet/Degas” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The media
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On West Side Story, Schwanengesang, Dead Man Walking & a performance by Yo-Yo Ma.
Therapeutic hatred
by James Bowman
On criminalized politics & partisan contempt.
Fiction chronicle
Closely examined lives
by Andrew Stuttaford
On My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket, One Woman Show by Christine Coulson, The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati & The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.
Books
Hieratic Hecht
by Adam Kirsch
A review of Late Romance by David Yezzi.
Women of the brush
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
A review of Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great by Rosalind P. Blakesley.
Court marshal
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of France on Trial by Julian Jackson.
Visible man
by Paul Devlin
A review of Ralph Ellison: Photographer, edited by Michal Raz-Russo and John F. Callahan.
Trainspotting
by Jeremy Black
A review of The Coming of the Railway by David Gwyn.
Man of the moment
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of King Hancock by Brooke Barbier.
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Notebook
Subnormal schools
by Laurent Lemasson
On the disintegration of French schooling.
Notes & Comments
A little myopic
by The Editors
On the difference between art & entertainment.
Canceling the cancelers
by The Editors
On a recent victory for free discourse.