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A review of The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life by Charles J. Shields

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Restoring the lost consensus

From Roger Kimball’s acceptance remarks at the Bradley Prize ceremony.

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On the intellectual left and Israel.

Unpleasant Ibsen

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The denunciation machine

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On the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Senses of the past

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A review of The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism, by Stefan Collini.

Poems

The informant

by Anton Yakovlev

Barry’s house & the Burkean sublime

by George Green

Letter from London

The Brexit bust

by Simon Heffer

On Theresa May’s failures of leadership.

Dance

Passionate intensity

by Laura Jacobs

On “Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance with David Hallberg.”

Theater

Brush up your Shakespeare

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On Kiss Me, Kate at Studio 54, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus at the Booth Theatre, and King Lear at the Cort Theatre.

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Spilling over at the Whitney

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On “Spilling Over: Painting in Color in the 1960s” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Moore & Moore

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On “Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads” at the Wallace Collection, London, and “Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing” at the Henry Moore Foundation.

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On “Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art and “Joan Miró: Birth of the World” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note

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On “The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists” at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition note

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On “The Self-Portrait, from Schiele to Beckmann” at The Neue Galerie, New York.

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On “Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline” at Gagosian, “De Kooning: Five Decades” at Mnuchin Gallery, and “Lucian Freud: Monumental” at Acquavella Galleries.

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On the preservation and reconstruction of the cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Music

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by Jay Nordlinger

On Thomas Larcher and the New York Philharmonic; Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuja Wang, and the New World Symphony; and Katia and Marielle Labèque.

The media

Report from an alternative universe

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On partisan views of the Mueller report.

Verse chronicle

Down by the Old Mill Stream

by William Logan

On recent poetry.

Notebook

Paul Hollander, 1932–2019

by Daniel J. Mahoney

A remembrance of the Hungarian writer and frequent New Criterion contributor.

An answer to Roberta Smith’s “Stop Hating Jeff Koons”

by Pat Lipsky

June 19, 2019

The artist Pat Lipsky responds to the New York Times art critic’s recent column.

The Critic’s Notebook

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June 18, 2019

On ballparks, composers, Classicism & more from the world of culture.

To transcend or not to transcend?

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June 17, 2019

The Met Orchestra in Mahler and Bruckner.

The guns of Brixton

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June 12, 2019

On “The Art of London Firearms” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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June 11, 2019

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by Hannah Niemeier

June 2019

Notes & Comments

Restoring the lost consensus

A note of thanks

Features

The Left against Zion

by Dominic Green

Unpleasant Ibsen

by Brooke Allen

The denunciation machine

by J. Christian Adams

Senses of the past

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The informant

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Barry’s house & the Burkean sublime

by George Green

Letter from London

The Brexit bust

by Simon Heffer

Dance

Passionate intensity

by Laura Jacobs

Theater

Brush up your Shakespeare

by Kyle Smith

Art

Spilling over at the Whitney

by Karen Wilkin

Moore & Moore

by Eric Gibson

Monsters & manifestos

by Andrew L. Shea

Exhibition note

by Carolyn Stewart

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

Architecture

The past & future of Notre-Dame

by Peter Pennoyer

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

The media

Report from an alternative universe

by James Bowman

Verse chronicle

Down by the Old Mill Stream

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Notebook

Paul Hollander, 1932–2019

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An answer to Roberta Smith’s “Stop Hating Jeff Koons”

by Pat Lipsky

June 19, 2019

The Critic’s Notebook

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June 18, 2019

To transcend or not to transcend?

by Jay Nordlinger

June 17, 2019

The guns of Brixton

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June 12, 2019

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