Tate Modern inside & out: I The museum as a culture mall
by Hilton Kramer
A trip to Tate Modern.
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Tate Modern inside & out: II “Second city” syndrome
by Francis Morrone
On how London is changing.
Rimbaud: sophist of insanity
by Eric Ormsby
On the publication of Rimbaud: A Biography, by Graham Robb.
Talking to oneself
by Joseph Epstein
Reflections on keeping a journal upon the publication of The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists.
How to murder a Bolivian boy
by Anthony Daniels
On Peter Singer and the assault on medical ethics in America.
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Theater
The authentic spirit of Broadway
by Mark Steyn
On The Producers by Mel Brooks at the St. James Theater.
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Art
Vermeer’s world
by Karen Wilkin
On “Vermeer & the Delft School” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Joel Shapiro on the Roof at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture and Drawing at the PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Sidney Tillim: Recent Paintings at the Trans Hudson Gallery, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Kathleen Battle; Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila; Leos Janácek’s The Markropulos Case; Lang Lang with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov & Gurrelieder with the Met orchestra and chorus conducted by James Levine.
Berg’s femmes fatales
by Alexander Coleman
On Lulu by Alban Berg.
Concert note
by Patrick J. Smith
On the Guarneri String Quartet at Carnegie Hall.
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The media
Melancholy facts
by James Bowman
On contrasting obituaries of Second World War victims.
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Verse chronicle
Folk tales
by William Logan
A review ofSeven Ages, by Louise Glück; The Beauty of the Husband, by Anne Carson; The Beforelife, by Franz Wright; The Darkness and the Light, by Anthony Hecht; Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn; The Tether, by Karl Phillips & Electric Light, by Seamus Heaney.
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Books
Reconciling nature & the machine
by Mildred F. Schmertz
Induction rules
by John Derbyshire
A review of The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal, by James Franklin.
Trail of blood
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of The Shadow of the Sun, by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Notes & Comments
Culture contra ideology
by The Editors
On George Walden’s essay on “New Labor” in the May 11 TLS.