9.25.2003
’The BBC Loses a Bit of Its Luster’
[Posted 4:30 PM by James Panero]
Well, never thought I’d see the day when this headline appears in The New York Times. Then again, here’s an institution that knows something about the subject.
By the way, patient readers of the weblog, your wait is over! Armavirumque, offline for The New Criterion’s office move, as well as preparations for the October issue, looks to get back up to cruising speed over the next few days.
Subscribers to “first delivery” should expect to see the October 2003 New Criterion, see below, in their mailboxes within the hour. Would you like to get a jump on the month ahead? Click here to learn about “TNC first delivery.”
October 2003
Notes & Comments, 1
Lengthened shadows, II by Hilton Kramer, 4
France�s anti-Americanism by Jean-Fran�ois Revel, 12
Stefan George: poet of the Reich by John Simon, 20
Orwell on writing by Jeffrey Meyers, 27
New poems by Debora Greger & Charles E. Eaton, 34
Letter from Cambodia by Anthony Daniels, 39;
Theater: Trumbos play the
big parade by Mark Steyn, 42;
Art: Kelly & Stankiewicz by James Panero, 47;
Music: Salzburg chronicle by Jay Nordlinger, 51;
The media by James Bowman, 56
Books: Harrison Kinney, editor The Thurber letters & James Thurber Thurber
country reviewed by F. H. Buckley, 61;
Adam Nicolson God�s secretaries reviewed
by Paul Dean, 65;
C. S. Nicholls Elspeth Huxley reviewed by Brooke Allen, 67;
Mario Vargas Llosa El Para�so en la otra esquina reviewed by Renee Winegarten,
70;
Alan M. Wald Exiles from a future time reviewed by Stephen Schwartz, 73;
Michael Mewshaw Do I owe you something? reviewed by David R. Slavitt, 75;
Notebook: The victory of Posidippus by James Gardner, 78