New podcast: James Panero on Jeffrey Hart
Remembering the great literary scholar, editor, and mentor.
“Massive retaliation”: the only answer
On Roger Scruton’s removal from Britain’s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission.
Paul Hollander, 1932–2019
Remembering our friend and frequent contributor.
Features
Churchill’s debt to Burke
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Andrew Roberts’s remarks at the seventh annual Edmund Burke Award Gala.
“Unsavoury humbug”
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A review of Philip Larkin: Letters Home, edited by James Booth.
Studies in clubbability
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A review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch.
Power outage
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On the year in dance.
Art
The Critic’s Notebook
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April 22, 2019
On John Richardson’s homes, Meg Hitchcock’s collages, Brooklyn’s female choreographers & more from the world of culture.
Week in review
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April 18, 2019
On rebuilding Notre Dame, selling Salvator Mundi, Shakespeare’s parish & more.
Bach at Saint Thomas
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April 18, 2019
On St. John Passion at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue.
A substitute conductor scores with Mahler
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April 17, 2019
Simone Young at the Phil.
Shame old thing
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April 16, 2019
On shameless Trump-shaming in the media.
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1 Ice cold by Anthony Daniels
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Ice cold by Anthony Daniels
2 A common what?: the limits of reconciliation by Sarah Ruden
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A common what?: the limits of reconciliation by Sarah Ruden
3 King James in America by Barton Swaim
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King James in America by Barton Swaim
4Woke’s on you
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Woke’s on you
5 The price we pay by Martin Gardner
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The price we pay by Martin Gardner
6 The greatest of all novels by Gary Saul Morson
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The greatest of all novels by Gary Saul Morson
7 Yossarian section by Alec Solomita
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Yossarian section by Alec Solomita
8 An interview with Christian Wiman by David Yezzi
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An interview with Christian Wiman by David Yezzi
9Nothin’ like a dame
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Nothin’ like a dame
10 Prophecies of democratic leveling by Jacob Howland
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Prophecies of democratic leveling by Jacob Howland
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