Poems
Features
Vuillard’s mysteries
by Roger Kimball
On the enigmatic painter.
Rabbit-proof fence:
by Keith Windschuttle
On considering Phillip Noyce’s current film.
The intimate abstraction of Paul Valéry
by Joseph Epstein
Upon the publication of an English-language version of Paul Valéry’s Cahiers/Notebooks.
Peter Taylor today
by Richard Tillinghast
A reconsideration of this twentieth century novelist.
Song
by Andrew Frisardi
London journal
A tale of two Tonies
by John Gross
On the difficulties facing Tony Blair, from his international policy for the war against Iraq, to internal problems including immigration, trade unions, and the soft economy.
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Theater
Aging youth & a meatless sandwich
by Mark Steyn
On Kimberly Akimbo at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Shanghai Moon, produced by the Drama Dept. at the Greenwich House theater.
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Art
“Matisse Picasso” at MOMA QNS
by Karen Wilkin
Marsden Hartley & American modernism
by James Panero
On the native spirit of America’s great modernist painter.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Jane Eaglen, Arcadi Volodos, Radu Lupu & Garrick Ohlsson; Jenufa, by Janacek & The Abduction From The Seraglio, by Mozart.
Opera note
by James F. Penrose
James F. Penrose on Les Troyens, by Hector Berlioz.
The media
Himalayan self-righteousness
by James Bowman
Considering the smugness of the media, the protesters, and the poets in opposing the war against Iraq.
Books
E pluribus plurimum
by John Derbyshire
The good German
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art: a Biography, by Hermann Kurzke.
Aspiration and reality
by Paul Hollander
Laughing matters
by Kenneth Minogue
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Notebook
Cliquez ici for Alexandria
by Theodore Dalrymple
Exploring Alexandria’s library & the city, hometown of Cavafy.
Notes & Comments
If they holler . . .
by The Editors
On the latest lawsuit over a treacherous nursery rhyme.
Oleo olio
by The Editors
On the oleaginous artist Matthew Barney at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Squeals from the nursery
by The Editors
On the bad behavior of bad-boy poets.