Liberalism & imperialism
by Keith Windschuttle
The fourth in a series titled The Betrayal of Liberalism.
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Tolstoy’s prophecy: “What is art?” today
by James Sloan Allen
On Tolstoy’s curmudgeonly book on art & morality.
The scholar of scandal
by Brooke Allen
On The Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Fintan O’Toole.
A thoroughly modern Monet
by Karen Wilkin
On Monet in the 20th Century at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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Poems
Letters to the Editor
The ironic tiger
by Richard Tillinghast
On Irish culture & the economic boom.
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Theater
“Corpus” delecti
by Mark Steyn
On Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi.
Art
Van Gogh in Washington
by Mario Naves
On Van Gogh’s Van Goghs, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Music
Derailed in San Francisco
by David Mermelstein
On A Streetcar Named Desire by André Previn, at the San Francisco Opera.
Concert note
by Lawrence Johnson
On Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Concert note
by Alexander Coleman
On the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Temirkanov at Carnegie Hall.
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The media
The Gingrich story
by James Bowman
On Newt Gingrich & the press corps.
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Verse chronicle
Sins & sensibility
by William Logan
On Sweet Machine by Mark Doty, Ten Commandments by J. D. McClatchy, The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot, A Working Girl Can’t Win by Deborah Garrison, Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins, Blizzard of One by Mark Strand & Hay by Paul Muldoon.
Books
Brontosauran bardolatry
by Paul Dean
Review of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
PC New York
by Francis Morrone
Bored & boring
by Mark Falcoff
Review of The Politics of Spanish American “Modernismo” By Exquisite Design by Gerard Aching
Notes & Comments
James Tuttleton, 1934-1998
by The Editors
On the life & work of one of America’s wisest & most percipient critics.