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Dutch treats

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On “Vrel: Forerunner of Vermeer“ at the Mauritshuis, The Hague & “Vermeer” at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Peter Thiel receives The New Criterion’s 2023 Edmund Burke Award

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Watch Peter Thiel receive The New Criterion’s 2023 Edmund Burke Award.

A quarry of quandaries

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On the plays The Eldest Son & Justice by John Galsworthy.

Emperor of chaos

by Gary Saul Morson

On Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller.

Looking for a sign

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On the revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window on Broadway.

The other Monet

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On “Léon Monet: The Artist’s Brother and Collector” at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.

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Urban nightmare

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A word of thanks

On our indispensable friends & supporters.

Features

The diversity myth

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On multiculturalism as misdirection.

Emperor of chaos

by Gary Saul Morson

On Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller.

Pfitzner’s end

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On Hans Pfitzner & the conservative artist.

Dutch treats

by Benjamin Riley

On “Vrel: Forerunner of Vermeer“ at the Mauritshuis, The Hague & “Vermeer” at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Poems

Sweet longing (a translation)

by Dylan Carpenter

“Kiss Me Deadly” (1955)

by Karl Kirchwey

Season of spores

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Letter from London

New king, old country

by Simon Heffer

On the coronation of King Charles III.

Reflections

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by Timothy Jacobson

On William Truesdale & the Lackawanna Railroad.

Reconsiderations

A quarry of quandaries

by Anthony Daniels

On the plays The Eldest Son & Justice by John Galsworthy.

Intolerant society

by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

On the sad state of free speech on campus.

Theater

Dancing through the past

by Kyle Smith

On Sweeney Todd, Camelot & New York, New York.

Art

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by Karen Wilkin

On “Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing” at Acquavella Galleries, New York.

The inside-out diorama

by James Panero

On the new Richard Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History.

Exhibition note

by Gregory T. Clark

On “Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss” at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, through July 16.

Exhibition note

by Sean McGlynn

On “After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art” at the National Gallery, London.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera & Lincoln Center.

Concert note

by George Loomis

On Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

The media

Out the Overton window

by James Bowman

On what the media deems newsworthy.

Verse chronicle

Down on the corner

by William Logan

On new poetry by B. H. Fairchild, Devin Johnston, Sharon Olds, Robin Coste Lewis, Thomas Kinsella & Ada Limón.

Notebook

Roman Romanticism

by Stephen Schmalhofer

On Francis Marion Crawford’s Saracinesca tetralogy.

Never a dull moment

by Jay Nordlinger

June 01, 2023

On a concert by Joshua Bell, violin, and Daniil Trifonov, piano, in Carnegie Hall.

Looking for a sign

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May 31, 2023

On the revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window on Broadway.

The Critic’s Notebook

by The Editors

May 31, 2023

On music history, the Northern Renaissance, Venetian art and architecture, Edwin Lutyens, Bach’s keyboard concertos & more from the world of culture.

The other Monet

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May 30, 2023

On “Léon Monet: The Artist’s Brother and Collector” at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.

Muti winds up

by Jay Nordlinger

May 30, 2023

On a program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Riccardo Muti.

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Circa Suleiman

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“Kiss Me Deadly” (1955)

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