The difficulty with Hegel
by Roger Kimball
Reflections on the philosopher, occasioned by the recent biography by Terry Pinkard.
Features
Clement Greenberg
by Tim Hilton
A memoir of the art critic, reprinted from the book Telling Lives, edited by Alistair Horne, which was published in England this year by Macmillan.
Looking backward at Edward Bellamy’s utopia
by Martin Gardner
On the pervasive influence of the American utopian.
The river grows muddied
by Martin Greenberg
On The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800: Style, Politeness and Print Culture, by Carey McIntosh.
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Theater
A theatrical cipher
by Mark Steyn
On Avow, by Bill C. Davis; The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman & The Man Who Came To Dinner, by George Kaufman and Moss Hart.
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Art
The splendid Chardin
by Karen Wilkin
On Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Alice Neel, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Dance
Two princes & a mock Tudor
by Laura Jacobs
On Ethan Stiefel, Angel Corella & the spring season at the American Ballet Theatre.
Music
The other Rota
by John Simon
On the Italian composer Nino Rota.
Starry skies above
by David Mermelstein
On the Ojai Music Festival in California.
The media
The politics of posturing
by James Bowman
On “reality” television and the Republican convention.
Books
Posthumous impresario
by Eric Ormsby
A review of Last Poems: Manuscript Materials, by W. B. Yeats, edited by James Pethica.
Patriotism of the heart
by James Bowman
A review of My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative, by Norman Podhoretz.
A stereopticon
by Guy Davenport
A review of Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates & Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings, edited by Brian Boyd & Robert Michael Pyle.
Notebook
Crudity beyond belief
by Theodore Dalrymple
On the English town Walsall, and its new art gallery.
Notes & Comments
We Now Know
by The Editors