Issues
Volume 22, Number 9 / May 2004
Notes & Comments
May 2004
If you pander, they won’t come
Features
May 2004
Olympians on the march: the courts & the culture wars
On the “liberal transformation” of the judiciary in America.
May 2004
Giovanni Verga’s verismo
On the Italian realist novelist.
Art
May 2004
Milton Avery: then & now
On the unpresumptuous Milton Avery whose “quiet harmonies of color and line” continue to resonate.
May 2004
The ancient Greeks: were they like us at all?
On “Coming of Age in Ancient Greece,” an exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Were the lives of the Greeks anything like our own?
Poems
May 2004
Traveler
May 2004
My grandfather’s pocket watch
May 2004
The Tide Pool
Letters to the Editor
May 2004
Borrowed time in the botellón
On the sentiments of the Madrileños before, during, and after their national tragedy. What does this tell us about the weakening resolve of the West?
Theater
May 2004
From “Embedded” to “in bed with”
On Tim Robbins’s expert self-parody & A. R. Gurney’s new play, Mrs. Farnsworth.
Music
May 2004
New York chronicle
On the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, a violin recital presented by Maxim Vengerov, with Fazil Say at the piano & Salome at the Metropolitan Opera.
The media
May 2004
Obligations to “spin”
On the “monumental self-conceit” of Howell Raines and Richard Clarke & “the media’s interest in buying into self-promotion.”
Fiction chronicle
May 2004
Not to comment, but to illustrate
review of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer; The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat; Bandbox: A Novel, by Thomas Mallon; Little Children: A Novel, by Tom Perrotta; I Dream of Microwaves, by Imad Rahman & I Sailed with Magellan, by Stuart Dybeck.
Notebook
May 2004
The strangest travel book ever written
On a little-known travelogue/memoir, An African in Greenland.
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