The new sensibility
by Roger Kimball
The sixth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution.”
Features
Rebecca West & the FBI
by Carl Rollyson
On Rebecca West’s FBI file & what it tells us.
Wallace Stevens’s real world
by Donald Lyons
On Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose published by the Library of America, edited by Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson
Lorenzo Lotto in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
On “Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Poems
Introduction to Six poems by Umberto Saba
by Geoffrey Brock
Geoffrey Brock’s introduction to Saba’s poems
Six poems by Umberto Saba
by Geoffrey Brock
Saba’s poems, with matching translations from Geoffrey Brock
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Theater
Peddling air
by Mark Steyn
On the selling of theaters’ air rights & the Broadway season
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Art
Talking at cross purposes: Piet Mondrian & Ad Reinhardt
by Mario Naves
On Mondrian & Reinhardt: Influence & Affinity at PaceWildenstein, New York
Exhibition notes
by David Cohen
On Jake Berthot: New Paintings & Drawings at the McKee gallery, New York
Music
The Sibelius question
by Alexander Coleman
On the London Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall & “The Sibelius Symposium” at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center, New York.
Concert note
by Lawrence Johnson
On Amistad by Anthony Davis & Thulani Davis at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Concert note
by John Simon
On Capriccio, by Richard Strauss, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Concert note
by David Mermelstein
On Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, by Claude Debussy, at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.
The media
“Washington Post” mortem
by James Bowman
On integrity, concerned journalists & The Washington Post’s holiday headlines
Books
Boy meets girl in Montreal
by Mark Steyn
Review of Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler
Plato, true & false
by Seth Benardete
An elusive acquaintance
by Brooke Allen
Our saint if we had one
by David Yezzi
Review of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello, with Celeste Goodridge & Cristanne Miller
Notes & Comments
Abolish women’s studies
by The Editors
On universities and the rise of Big Sister.
Philippe de Montebello at the Met
by The Editors