The spirit of Noël Coward
by Bruce Bawer
On Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden.
On Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden.
On “men” & “women” in Plato.
On the life, work & reputation of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
On ancient violence & modern judgment.
On modern barbarians in ancient cities.
On the scientific method & climate change.
On Matthew Arnold & Oxford’s past.
On Here Lies Love, The Cottage & The Shark Is Broken.
On “William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision” at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
On “1923-2023 Sorolla / Soto Centennials” & “Jewels in a Gem: Luz Camino at the Hispanic Society Museum” at the Hispanic Museum & Library.
On “Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
On “The Provincetown Printmakers” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
On the Miró Quartet, American Ballet Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, Teatro Nuovo’s Poliuto & the pianist Juho Pohjonen.
On the scandal machine & self-reinforcing ideology.
A review of Orwell by D. J. Taylor.
A review of Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann, translated by Allan Blunden.
A review ofThe Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, edited by John Morrill.
A review of The English Actor by Peter Ackroyd.
A review of Hellfire by David Fleming.
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On the life & work of the late Martin Amis.
Notes & Comments
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
by The Editors
On an ideological shipwreck.
Machiavelli comes for the Met
by The Editors
On the demise of the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
Christopher Carduff, 1956–2023
by The Editors
On the late editor & former New Criterion colleague.