March 2007
Nasty, brutish, but tolerant
On “Why can’t we all just get along?”
On “Why can’t we all just get along?”
On Britain’s state-funded broadcaster, up to its usual tricks.
On the interesting policies of The New York Times.
On the enviable position of a museum director.
On Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11.
On Zachary Leader’s new biography of Kingsley Amis.
On recently published Proustiana.
On the letters of Martha Gellhorn.
On Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
On Frank’s Home, The Fever, A Spanish Play, and Translations.
On “Matisse: Painter as Sculptor” at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.
On “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-1946” at the International Center of Photography.
On “Picturing Artists (1950s-1960s): Photographs by Dan Budnik” at Knoedler & Company; “John Morra: Recent Paintings” at Hirschl & Adler Galleries; “Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction; Paintings and Drawings (1944-1959)” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery & “Al Pounders: Recent Work” at Allen Stone Gallery.
On the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Hindemith’s long-lost Piano Music with Orchestra, Op. 29, the New York String Orchestra’s performance of Joan Tower’s Made in America, Bernard Labadie conducting the New York Philharmonic, the abridged English version of Julie Taymor’s Magic Flute production at the Metropolitan Opera, Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, and the Cassatt String Quartet.
On the circus surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
A letter from Christopher Hitchens.
A response from Anthony Daniels.
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