Little god, big Wilson
by Roger Kimball
On God’s Funeral by A. N. Wilson
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Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry
by Martin Greenberg
On Hazlitt’s adversarial relationship with Wordsworth.
W. Somerset Maugham: the pleasures of a master
by Anthony Daniels
On Maugham’s controversy.
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Muddling through in Bosnia
by Stephen Schwartz
On the situation in Sarajevo
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Theater
Two cheers for the middlebrow
by Mark Steyn
On The Cradle Will Rock & Amadeus
Art
Two views of Caravaggio
by Karen Wilkin
Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Angelo Ippolito: A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper at the New York Studio School & Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism at Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism, at Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
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Architecture
Fantasy island
by Francis Morrone
On New York: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns
Music
The great ghastly
by David Mermelstein
On The Great Gatsby, at the Metropolitan Opera
A tale of two prodigies
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances by Joshua Bell and Anne-Sophie Mutter
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The media
Against linguistic libertarianism
by James Bowman
On the ramifications of neglecting standardized English.
Books
He told us so
by David Pryce-Jones
Review of Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest
Clear, affecting, subtle
by Brooke Allen
Review of The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan
Vast deception
by Paul Hollander
Review of See No Evil: Literary Cover-ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience by Dariusz Tolczyk
Notes & Comments
Oh, the poor, innocent child!
by The Editors
On Schools Are Not The Answer, James Traub’s New York Times Magazine article
The Smithsonian of sex
by The Editors
On plans for a New York Museum of Sex.