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Philhellene’s progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor
by Ben Downing
On his life and work.
Sadness balancing wit: Thackeray’s life & works
by Brooke Allen
Emmanuel Chabrier & French musical tradition
by James F. Penrose
On composer & his effect on post-Wagnerian French music.
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Theater
The measure of smartness
by Mark Steyn
On Reading Lyrics: More Than a Thousand of the Century’s Finest Lyrics, edited by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, Jane Eyre by Paul Gordon and John Caird, and The Music Man by Meredith Wilson.
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Art
Baschenis at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On The Still Lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The Music of Silence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On R. B. Kitaj: How to reach 67 in Jewish Art at the Marlborough Gallery; Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstractions 1949-1955 at Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art & Joan Miró: 16 Late Masterworks, at Salander O’Reilly Gallery.
Architecture
“Inventing the Skyline”: the career of Cass Gilbert
by Francis Morrone
On Inventing the Skyline at the New York Historical Society
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Music
Earl Wild at 85
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances and recordings of the Bach cantatas.
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The media
The familiar hypocrisy
by James Bowman
On vote-counting in Florida.
Books
No idiocy like educated idiocy
by Anthony Daniels
Valiant for truth
by John Derbyshire
A review of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Discourses on Reflexology Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects, by Martin Gardner.
The survivor
by Paul Dean
A review of Thomas Gray: A Life, by Robert L. Mack.
The small house
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature, by Peter Brooks.
Genial improvisations
by Alexander Coleman
A review of This Craft of Verse, by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu.
Notes & Comments
Michigan’s thin line
by The Editors
On affirmative action in universties.
Anti-Americanism alive and well
by The Editors
On criticism produced by the American election.