The American view of landscape
by Michael J. Lewis
On parks, highways, and freedom.
Features
Atatürk’s creation
by David Fromkin
On the biography by Andrew Mango.
“Strange seriousness”: discovering Daumier
by Roger Kimball
On the artist upon viewing Daumier, 1808-1879 at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Martin du Gard’s monster in a box
by Ben Downing
On the author and his unfinished novel Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort.
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On mayoral politics in London.
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Out of the humor business
by Mark Steyn
On The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife & The Altruists.
Art
Tilman Riemenschneider at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On Frantisek Vobecky: Photomontages 1935-1938 at Ubu Gallery, New York, Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction in the 20th Century at Knoedler & Company, New York, Marsden Hartley: Drawings at Kraushaar Galleries, New York & C. R. W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
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Music
Barenboim at Carnegie Hall
by Jay Nordlinger
On Daniel Barenboim’s many talents.
Concert note
by Jay Nordlinger
On Ignat Solzhenitsyn with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, New York.
The media
The narrative imperative
by James Bowman
On media bias.
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Books
Tiresias redux
by Theodore Dalrymple
A review of Crossing by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Morally handicapped
by Brooke Allen
Review of Diana Mosley by Jan Dalley
The pilgrim returns
by Lauren Weiner
Review of Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
The will & the way
by Carl Rollyson
A review of In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag
Shorter notice
by Max Watman
Review of Vassily Aksyonov’s The New Sweet Style.
Notebook
Life in Basqueland
by Alexander Coleman
On The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky.
Notes & Comments
Science and human nature
by The Editors
Considering Bill Joy’s article in Wired on the dangers of technology.
Dull, tedious, boring
by The Editors
On the Whitney Biennial.