Sanctimony serving politics: the Florida fiasco
by Robert Bork
Reflections on the Supreme Court’s internvention in the battle for Florida’s electoral votes.
Features
Schiller’s “Aesthetic Education”
by Roger Kimball
On Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man.
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “very cultured voice”
by Brooke Allen
Occasioned by the publication of The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories, and the reissuing of Lolly Willowes.
The potency of pure painting: Manet’s still lifes
by Karen Wilkin
A review of “Manet: The Still-Life Paintings,” at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
Poems
Four poems by Rainer Maria von Rilke
by Martin Greenberg
Translated by Martin Greenberg, with his introduction.
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Theater
London & New York
by Mark Steyn
On Feelgood by Alistair Beaton, Deborah Warner’s version of Medea, Reba McEntire’s portrayal of Annie Oakley in Annie, Get Your Gun & Rosie O’Donnell in Seussical.
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Music
Lessons from masters
by Jay Nordlinger
The Marilyn Horne Foundation master classes.
The egghead’s “Gioconda”
by Patrick J. Smith
On Busoni’s Doktor Faust, at the Metropolitan Opera.
Concert note
by Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger on Jean-Yves Thibaudet, at Carnegie Hall.
The media
Covering governing
by James Bowman
On the vanishing distinction between politician and journalist, and the maintenance of celebrity.
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Books
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s “Innocent Beginnings”
by Hilton Kramer
A review of A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The life & the “Life”
by John Derbyshire
A review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin & Boswell’s Presumptious Task, by Adam Sisman.
Putting on the make-up
by Paul Dean
A review of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies, edited by Gary A. Stringer.
When in Romania
by Anne Applebaum
A review of Journal: 1935-1944 by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Radu Ioanid.
Shorter notice
by David Yezzi
On The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters edited by R. L. Barth.
Shorter notice
by Sanford Pinsker
On In Fact: Essays on Writers & Writing, by Thomas Mallon.
Notebook
Once upon a time in France
by David Fromkin
Musings on the history of restaurants in France.
Notes & Comments
The tendency of our culture
by The Editors
On Arnold Toynbee’s analysis of “prole culture”