A stately setting
by Myron Magnet
On America’s Collection: The Art & Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State by Virginia B. Hart.
Features
A model up in heaven
by Mark F. McClay
On the Loeb Classical Library & its latest editions of the Platonic dialogues.
The peace women
by Peter Baehr
On the disappearance of women from peace movements.
Hopper horrors at the Whitney
by Gail Levin
On the museum’s suspicious handling of the Hopper estate.
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Lombardian lessons
by Sean McGlynn
On Milan & its relationship to Europe.
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Reflections
Propaganda & uglification
by Anthony Daniels
On tattoos & brutalism.
Reconsiderations
The prudence of Penelope Fitzgerald
by Richard Tillinghast
On the novelist & biographer.
Theater
Not yet dead
by Kyle Smith
On Month Python’s Spamalot, I Need That & The Gardens of Anuncia.
Art
Studio album
by Karen Wilkin
On “Henry Taylor: B Side” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition note
by Gregory T. Clark
On “Frans Hals” at the London National Gallery.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris” at the Barnes Foundation.
Exhibition note
by Gregory T. Clark
On “The Treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral: From Its Origins to Viollet-le-Duc” at the Louvre.
Under pressure
by James Panero
On “Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925” at Neue Galerie.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House & David Geffen Hall.
The media
Meritless meritocracy
by James Bowman
On the cracks showing in the elite establishment.
Books
Carlyle in sickness & in health
by Simon Heffer
A review of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. 49 by Thomas & Jane Welsh Carlyle & The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. 50 by Thomas & Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Public disservice
by John Steele Gordon
A review of Not Accountable by Philip K. Howard.
Death by disinformation
by Gordon G. Chang
A review of Beijing’s Global Media Offensive by Joshua Kurlantzick.
Steel City scenarist
by Paul Devlin
A review of August Wilson by Patti Hartigan.
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Notebook
The lost Homerics
by Edward N. Luttwak
On bygone Trojan epics.
Notes & Comments
Henry A. Kissinger, 1923–2023
by The Editors
On the late & great Henry Kissinger.