Roger Kimball introduces the October issue
A new podcast from the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion.
Features
Of, by & for the freedmen
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On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.
War as an art form
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On the Australian war correspondent and writer Alan Moorehead.
Keats & the pronunciation of “Cortez”
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On a problematic line from Keats’s famous sonnet, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”
“The same adorable source”
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A review of Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding.
Letter from London
Letter from Paris
Art
Week in review
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October 09, 2020
On D. H. Lawrence & Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.
The Critic’s Notebook
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October 06, 2020
On Stanley Whitney, Wagner Week at the Met, the architecture of Surrey, England & more from the world of culture.
Week in review
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October 02, 2020
On Chopin’s relics, Caesar’s assassins & the real Richard III.
Magicians of modernity
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October 01, 2020
A review of Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy, by Wolfram Eilenberger.
A tour through a sonata
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September 29, 2020
On the pianist Igor Levit in Beethoven.
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This Week
1 All over but the crying by David Pryce-Jones
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All over but the crying by David Pryce-Jones
2 Wagner: moralist or monster? by Roger Scruton
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Wagner: moralist or monster? by Roger Scruton
3 Ideas have consequences by Kevin D. Williamson
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Ideas have consequences by Kevin D. Williamson
4 The culture of classical music today by Samuel Lipman
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The culture of classical music today by Samuel Lipman
5 The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
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The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
6 The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
7 Why I became a conservative by Roger Scruton
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Why I became a conservative by Roger Scruton
8 The full force of Mahler by James F. Penrose
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The full force of Mahler by James F. Penrose
9 War as an art form by James F. Penrose
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War as an art form by James F. Penrose
10 “The same adorable source” by D. Q. McInerny
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“The same adorable source” by D. Q. McInerny
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