Burke & political liberty
by Martin Greenberg
The seventh in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
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Simone Weil: A saint for our time?
by Jillian Becker
On the thinker, upon the publication of Simone Weil by Francine du Plessix Gray.
Merrill’s progress
by Daniel Mark Epstein
On Collected Poems by James Merrill.
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Poems
Theater
Bogeymen and aspirates
by Mark Steyn
On Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady & Deidre Murray & Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris.
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Dance
Art
Compressed narratives, minute actions
by Daniel Kunitz
On Surrealist Collage at the Zabriskie Gallery & The Quintet of Remembrance by Bill Viola a the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, Michelle DeYoung at Weill Recital Hall, Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall, Orchestre de Paris at Carnegie Hall, Shostakovich played by Hillary Hahn & the Concertgebouw conducted by Chailly
Whither the “Philadelphia sound?”
by Patrick J. Smith
On The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
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The media
Reporting innuendo
by James Bowman
On the Enron scandal.
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Books
A complete moral void
by David Pryce-Jones
A contented mandarin
by Anthony Daniels
A review of Darwin’s Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination, by Gerald Weissmann.
Houses of repute
by Alexander Coleman
A review of Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera, by Johanna Fiedler, Covent Garden: The Untold Story, by Norman Lebrecht, Valery Gergiev and the Kirov: A Story of Survival, by John Ardoin.
The seventh seal
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet, by Elaine Feinstein.
Notes & Comments
This way to the egress
by The Editors
On Okwui Enwezor and Documenta.
The rewards of radicalism
by The Editors
On Susan Sonntag.
Higher education, Berkeley style
by The Editors
On pornography for college credit.