“Christophobia” and the West
by Kenneth Minogue
On the consequences of secular faiths.
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Malcolm Muggeridge’s journey
by Roger Kimball
On the British writer, television personality, and moral and religious gadfly Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge at 100.
From “the Evil Empire” to “the Empire for Liberty&rdquo
by Paul Johnson
Dreiser in 1925
by Jeffrey Hart
Revisiting an essential author and an essential moment in American letters.
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The elusive truth
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Britain can’t stop loving its Cambridge Spies, as a new documentary attests.
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Theater
A Rose is a rose . . .
by Mark Steyn
On “Gypsy.”
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Art
Anywhere in between
by Karen Wilkin
On Thomas Nozkowski at the New York Studio School Gallery, Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris at L.I.C.K., and John Walker and Helen Frankenthaler at Knoedler and Company.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
Joel Shapiro at PaceWildenstein; Frank Stella at Paul Kasmin; George Segal at Mitchell-Innes & Nash & Roy Lichtenstein on the roof the Metropolitan Museum.
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Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Easter Festival in Salzburg, at which the Berlin Philharmonic performed Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, Haydn’s “The Seasons,” Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
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The media
Spurious objectivity
by James Bowman
On the abscence of objectivity at American and British news agencies .
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Verse chronicle
Satanic mills
by William Logan
Reviews of The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds; Jelly Roll (A Blues) by Kevin Young; At The Palace Of Jove by Karl Kirchwey; Poems The Size Of Photographs by Les Murray; Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot; and Middle Earth by Henri Cole.
Books
A nose for the bogus
by Brooke Allen
A review of As of this Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002, by Clive James.
“I will be a hero”
by Robert Messenger
A review of Nelson: Love And Fame, by Edgar Vincent.
Uncommon pilgrims
by Mary Ellen Bork
A review of The Life You Save May Be Your Own, by Paul Elie.
Hail, Muse! Etc.
by Paul Dean
A review of Byron: Life and Legend, by Fiona MacCarthy.
Shorter notice
by David Propson
David Propson on The Book Against God, by James Wood.
Notes & Comments
The New York Times at bay
by The Editors
On l’affaire Blair and the meltdown at our paper of dubious record.
How we do it
by The Editors
Giving thanks to those people who make The New Criterion possible.