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On Geoffrey Hill’s reading at the Sheldonian Theatre.
Defeating the poem
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On teaching poetry.
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On Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.
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by David Yezzi
On how tired poetic “genius” has become.
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On The Pajama Game and Parsifal.
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Goya at the Frick
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On “Goya’s Last Works” at the Frick Collection.
Exhibition Notes
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On “Fairfield Porter” at the Betty Cuningham Gallery.
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by Nola Tully
On “John Szarkowski: Photographs” at the Museum of Modern Art.
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On “Frost: Life and Culture of the Sami Reindeer People of Norway” at the National Museum of Natural History.
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“On “The Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night” at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art.”
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the latest in the New York music scene.
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A plague of scandals
by James Bowman
On the cheapness of political outrage.
Books
Collapse of a “hyperpower”
by Victor Davis Hanson
On The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather and The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins.
Burkenstocks
by Joseph Rago
On Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher.
All for love
by John Simon
On Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems edited by J. D. McClathy.
By any other name
by The Editors
On The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants by Anna Pavord.
The haiku spirit
by Anthony Cuda
On The Poems of Chalres Reznikoff, 1918-1975 edited by Seamus Cooney.
Shorter notice
by James Panero
On Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World by Paul Werner.
Shorter notice
by Courtney Andree
On Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach.
Shorter notice
by Stefan Beck
On The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell & Terry Victor.
Shorter notice
by Roger Kimball
On The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
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Michael S. Joyce, 1942-2006
by The Editors
On the passing of a man who made this magazine possible.
Yale’s latest folly
by The Editors
The Taliban comes to New Haven.
Meanwhile, in the art world
by The Editors
“Performance artist” Karen Finley’s latest.