Mao & the Maoists
by Keith Windschuttle
A new look at the legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal killers.
Features
Roth reconsidered
by Brooke Allen
A look back at the career of the Library of America’s newest addition.
From Moses to Musa
by Eric Ormsby
Two great holy books revisited.
Out of the past
by Laura Jacobs
Laura Jacobs on the Bolshoi Ballet.
Poems
The death of Winckelmann
by George Green
A new poem.
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Theater
Yoklahoma!
by Mark Steyn
On the musical Lennon and a “rock musical” production of Two Gentleman of Verona.
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Art
Atget in Philadelphia
by Karen Wilkin
On “Looking at Atget,” which opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on September 10 and remains on view through November 27, 2005.
Exhibition note
by Peter Campion
On “The Art of Richard Tuttle,” which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on July 2 and remains on view through October 16, 2005.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island,” by Robert Smithson; “Philip Pearlstein” at Betty Cuningham Gallery; “Jordan Wolfson: Recent Work” at DFN Gallery; “Philip-Lorca de Corcia: Lucky Thirteen” at PaceWildenstein; “Jean Hélion” at the National Academy Museum & and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, for Old Master and Renaissance art and
sculpture, recently opened at 22 East 71st Street.
Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the offerings at the 2005 Salzburg Festival.
The media
All McKinneys now
by James Bowman
On some recent displays of media moralizing.
Books
Thalatta! Thalatta!
by Victor Davis Hanson
A review of Robin Lane Fox’s The Long March and Tim Rood’s “The Sea! The Sea!”
Rediscovering Matisse
by Hilton Kramer
Hotel Infinity
by Martin Gardner
Man of letters
by Christopher Willcox
On Lewis M. Dabney’s Edmund Wilson.
Missed opportunities
by Mark Bauerlein
On Jonathan Kozol’s The shame of the nation.
Saëns and sensibilité
by R. J. Stove
On The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saëns & Gabriel Fauré, edited by Jean-Michel Nectoux.
Notes & Comments
Beyond parody at the Times
by The Editors
On some preposterous “cultural coverage” at The New York Times.