The English-speaking century
by Keith Windschuttle
On Andrew Roberts’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900.
Features
Orwell’s “Catalonia” revisited
by Anthony Daniels
On reexamining George Orwell’s classic tale of the Spanish Civil War.
The god within?
by Eric Ormsby
On Harold Bloom’s view of what constitutes the best of American religious poetry.
Homegrown oratory
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Library of America’s two volumes of American speeches.
Poems
Courtesy
by Andrew Hudgins
A poem by Andrew Hudgins.
Son of Télamon
by John Foy
A poem by John Foy.
In bed for a week
by Ernest Hilbert
A poem by Ernest Hilbert.
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Remembering Eliot’s Criterion
by Garrick Davis
On the journal that inspired the foundation of this publication.
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Theater
Irrepressible urges
by Brooke Allen
On Spring Awakening, The Scene, Home, and Gutenberg! The Musical!
Art
Morris Louis reconsidered
by Karen Wilkin
On “Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On “The Odyssey Continues: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art & Private New Orleans Collections” at Wildenstein & Company, New York.
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On “Saul Steinberg: Illuminations” at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Andrew Forge“ at Betty Cuningham Gallery; “Nineteenth-century German Romantic Drawings” at David Nolan Gallery & “Paintings: Ralph Albert Blakelock, Louis Michel Eilshemius, and Albert Pinkham Ryder” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
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The media
We vote for Brand X
by James Bowman
On the presentation of politics as a simple choice of Coke vs. Pepsi.
Books
A triumvirate for our time
by Kenneth Minogue
On The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, by John O’Sullivan.
William’s tale
by Paul Dean
On John Haffenden’s William Empson: Against the Christians.
Gesamtkunstwerk
by Daniel Johnson
Pynchon’s progress
by Max Watman
On Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.
Dark & dire
by William Giraldi
On The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Sourcebook, edited by Alice Jenkins.
Guys & Dahls
by David Propson
On the Everyman’s Library Collected Stories of Roald Dahl.
Notebook
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 1941-2007
by Robert L. Paquette
On the passing of the prominent academic.
Notes & Comments
“His perfect sense of the other”
by The Editors
On the New York Times Book Review’s paean to Norman Mailer.
Onward & upward with the arts
by The Editors
On being rather too intimate with the animal kingdom.