The fortunes of permanence
by Roger Kimball
The tenth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
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Radical history
by Harvey Klehr
On shoddy & politicized scholarship.
Steinbeck’s myth of the Okies
by Keith Windschuttle
Surtees & money
by Timothy Congdon
Inventing Claude Debussy
by James F. Penrose
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In the year of Jubilee
by John Gross
On the upcoming celebrations.
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Theater
Ee-i-ee-i-o
by Mark Steyn
On The Goat by Edward Albee.
Art
A celebration of painting in Boston
by Karen Wilkin
A review of “Impressionist Still Life” at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
Daniel Kunitz on Stuart Davis: Major Late Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
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.
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The media
Irrevocable vulgarization
by James Bowman
On Washington’s cow parade & Ted Koppel.
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Verse chronicle
Falls the shadow
by William Logan
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.
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Books
The art & life of Dostoevsky
by Gary Saul Morson
A review of Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1870-1881 by Joseph Frank.
Where Eagletons dare
by Paul Dean
A review of The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton.
To the shores of Tripoli
by Robert Messenger
Notebook
Arrested development
by Theodore Dalrymple
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.