June 2001
Culture contra ideology
On George Walden’s essay on “New Labor” in the May 11 TLS.
On George Walden’s essay on “New Labor” in the May 11 TLS.
A trip to Tate Modern.
On how London is changing.
On the publication of Rimbaud: A Biography, by Graham Robb.
Reflections on keeping a journal upon the publication of The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists.
On Peter Singer and the assault on medical ethics in America.
On The Producers by Mel Brooks at the St. James Theater.
On “Vermeer & the Delft School” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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.
On Sidney Tillim: Recent Paintings at the Trans Hudson Gallery, New York.
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.
On Lulu by Alban Berg.
On the Guarneri String Quartet at Carnegie Hall.
On contrasting obituaries of Second World War victims.
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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