The importance of Homer
by Joshua T. Katz
On the poetic tradition.
Features
Galaxy brains
by Gary Saul Morson
On Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism, by Michel Eltchaninioff.
River of destinies
by Jeremy Black
On the Thames’s role in England’s fortunes.
“Breakfast Special”: a new story
by Woody Allen
Poems
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Letter from London
Elections & expectations
by Simon Heffer
On Rishi Sunak & the Conservative Party’s paltry prospects.
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Reflections
Squeeze-box for sale
by James Como
On the author’s musical education.
Theater
Questions of character
by Kyle Smith
On The Night of the Iguana, How to Dance in Ohio & All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain.
Art
The Met’s grand tour
by Karen Wilkin
On the rehang of the museum’s European galleries.
Exhibition note
by Jane Coombs
On “Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
Exhibition note
by Benjamin Riley
On “British Vision, 1700–1900” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Sean McGlynn
On “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months” at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Giorgione in the house
by James Panero
On “Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini” at Frick Madison, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at David Geffen Hall & Carnegie Hall.
The media
What revolution?
by James Bowman
On the slow & stealthy Second American Revolution.
Books
The universal Ulsterman
by Paul Dean
On the letters & translations of Seamus Heaney.
My fair gentleman
by David Platzer
A review of Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece by Ulinka Rublack.
Sightseeing in the past
by Amit Majmudar
A review of Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown.
Notebook
The vagaries of English spelling
by John Steele Gordon
On orthographic chaos.
The Lukacs centenary
by John P. Rossi
On the life & work of the great historian John Adalbert Lukacs.
Notes & Comments
Gay science
by The Editors
On DEI’s dangerous lies.