“One very simple principle”
by Roger Kimball
The third in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism.
Features
Pink pigeons & blue mayonnaise
by Joseph Epstein
On the composer, painter & novelist Gerald Berners.
“Vsyo Normalno”–in Russia
by Jonathan Brent
On the daily strains of Russian life.
Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmühle
by Eric Ormsby
On Kafka’s The Castle and its translations.
Poems
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Theater
Swans and swains
by Mark Steyn
On Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.
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Art
A Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mark Rothko at the Whitney
by Mario Naves
On Mark Rothko at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The media
Illusions of equivalence
by James Bowman
On Cold War, the CNN television series.
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Fiction chronicle
In the city
by Brooke Allen
On Bech at Bay by John Updike & Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge.
Books
“Absolute nonsense”–Gogol’s tales
by Gary Saul Morson
Sound judgments
by Creighton Gilbert
On Michelangelo—The Last Judgement: A Glorious Restoration by Loren Partridge, with contributions by Fabrizio Mancinelli & Gianluigi Colalucci & Michelangelo’s Last Judgement: The Renaissance Response by Bernadine Barnes
On the side of truth
by Jenny Teichman
On Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack
Book notes
by Christopher Carduff
On 1898: The Birth of the American Century by David Traxel, Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conquerer of the Air by Nancy Winters & Man From Babel by Eugene Jolas
Notebook
Mythmaking & the Aldo Moro case
by The Editors
On the assassination of Aldo Moro & Italian conspiracy theories
Notes & Comments
Liberal screaming
by The Editors
On Going Down Screaming, Andrew Sullivan’s New York Times article of October 11
“In the end character is destiny”
by The Editors
On the state of the press during the Clinton presidency.