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Most populargo to the complete list »November 2008Volume 27, Number 3Notes & comments On the close of The New York Sun. On the second New Criterion benefit art auction. Features A common what?: the limits of reconciliation by Sarah Ruden On the Christian-Muslim "A Common Word Between Us and You" at Yale. November 2008Volume 27, Number 3Departments Poems Verse Chronicle by Stefan Beck On All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, A Mercy by Toni Morrison, Home by Marilynne Robinson, and Netherland by Joseph O'Neill. Theater by Brooke Allen On A Tale of Two Cities at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 13 at the Jacobs Theatre, Equus at the Broadhurst Theatre. Art by Karen Wilkin On "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. On "Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958" at the McMullen Museum, Boston College. Music On the opening of the season of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Media by James Bowman On the continuing reappearance of the "end of capitalism" idea. November 2008Volume 27, Number 3Books 
on William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories by William Maxwell,Christopher Carduff reviewed by Eric Ormsby 
on William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow (Library of America #184) by William Maxwell,Christopher Carduff reviewed by Eric Ormsby 
on The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon reviewed by David Pryce-Jones 
on God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill reviewed by Roger Sandall 
on Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury by Alison Light reviewed by Theodore Dalrymple 
on God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman reviewed by Martin Gardner 
on The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez reviewed by Marco Grassi 
On the “War, Evil, and America Now" symposium at Skidmore College. by James Bowman |
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