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Features
Lessons from Juvenal
by Roger Kimball
On the great Roman satirist.
Who was Simon Raven?
by Brooke Allen
Considering the late English novelist, journalist, television writer & cult figure.
The place of poetry
by David Yezzi
Shadow language
by Eric Ormsby
Poetry: a prognosis
by Dick Davis
Winters’s curse
by Adam Kirsch
The thirteenth storey
by Glyn Maxwell
Letters from the World
Anglo-saxon attitudes
by Theodore Dalrymple
What do unintelligent or uneducated Parisians read?
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Theater
Luck of the Irish?
by Mark Steyn
On Heartbreak House, by George Bernard Shaw & Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme, by Frank McGuinness.
Art
“Manet/Velázquez” at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On connections between French and Spanish masters.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On William Bailey at Robert Miller, Paul Georges at Salander-O’Reilly; Marsden Hartley at Alexandre & Wayne Thiebaud at Allan Stone.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Emerson String Quartet at Carnegie Hall, Ensemble Wien-Berlin at Alice Tully Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie, Hugo Wolf, Hertor Berlioz & Ned Rorem.
The media
Rather not
by James Bowman
On Dan Rather’s interview with Saddam Hussein.
Books
The war to begin all wars
by Victor Davis Hanson
Native fiction
by Geoffrey Blainey
Prime problem
by James Franklin
A review of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire.
Notes & Comments
Junk Mailer
by The Editors
On the naked and the dead: Norman Mailer and The New York Review Of Books.
Politics and pedagogy
by The Editors
Protesting for extra credit.
Poets on poetry
by The Editors
On the special April section.