Romancing I. F. Stone
by Ron Radosh
On the journalist I. F. Stone.
Features
The human race: success or failure?
by Paul Johnson
On the precarious survival of humanity.
Seduction & politics
by Kenneth Minogue
The moral and political history of seduction.
In the Empty Quarter
by Ben Downing
The outlandish life of Wilfred Thesiger.
Poems
Crystal but not crystal ball
by Turner Cassity
A new poem.
Afterward
by Turner Cassity
A new poem by Turner Cassity
The fruits of the sea
by W. S. Di Piero
A new poem.
Three oaks
by Karl Kirchwey
A new poem.
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Reconsiderations
David Jones & the sacrament of art
by Gerald J. Russello
A reconsideration of the poet and visual artist David Jones.
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Theater
Heartbroken wrecks
by Brooke Allen
On recent productions of “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Wrecks.”
Art
Vollard at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
A review of “Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroisse Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde” opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on September 14, 2006 and remains on view through January 7, 2007.
Exhibition note
by David Yezzi
Review of “Constables Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings.”
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
A review of the season.
The media
A new era in scandalology
by James Bowman
Scandal in the eye of the beholder.
Fiction chronicle
Severe manners
by Max Watman
Reviews of “The View from Castle Rock: Stories,” by Alice Munro; “Talk Talk,” by T. C. Boyle; and “Special Topics in Calamity Physics,” by Marisha Pessl.
Books
The new appeasement
by Victor Davis Hanson
A review of “America Alone” by Mark Steyn.
The spy who cured me
by R. J. Stove
Canon fodder
by Mark Bauerlein
A review of “What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts?” by Michael Bérubé.
Hatred & fantasy
by Paul Hollander
Iran’s other book
by Russell Seitz
All bark, no bite
by Anthony Daniels
On “The Yage Letters Redux” by William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg.
Proust plural
by Molly McQuade
A review of The Letters of Marcel Proust.
Shorter notice
by Callie Siskel
A review of “Field Knowledge” by Morri Creech.
Shorter notice
by Emily Ghods
On “We.” by Yevgeny Zamaytin.
Notes & Comments
“America Alone”
by The Editors
On Mark Steyn’s latest broadside.
The last Straw
by The Editors
Jack Straw from Blackburn: Lay your burqa down.
Don’t know much about history
by The Editors
Is our children learning?