The fortunes of permanence
by Roger Kimball
The tenth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
The tenth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
On shoddy & politicized scholarship.
On the upcoming celebrations.
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On The Goat by Edward Albee.
A review of “Impressionist Still Life” at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Daniel Kunitz on Stuart Davis: Major Late Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
Reviews of Handel’s Agrippina at City Opera, Sir Colin Davis with the New York Philharmonic, Krystian Zimerman at Carnegie Hall & Christine Schäfer at Alice Tully Hall.
On Washington’s cow parade & Ted Koppel.
Reviews of A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright; Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan; The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin; Belonging by Dick Davis; Never by Jorie Graham & The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill.
A review of Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1870-1881 by Joseph Frank.
A review of The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton.
On Oscar Wilde.
Notes & Comments
A note of thanks
by The Editors
On The New Criterion’s 20th anniversary year.
Conservatives need not apply
by The Editors
On politics in the Berkeley English department.