Why the art world is a disaster
by Roger Kimball
On a visit to Bard College in the Hudson Valley.
Features
Diagnosing Lear
by Anthony Daniels
On discovering what ails Shakespeare’s king.
Glory & grandeur at the Met
by Marco Grassi
On the new Greek & Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Geoffrey Scott:
by Francis Morrone
On the architect and writer Geoffrey Scott.
Poems
Scenes from “The man of terror”
by Glyn Maxwell
Excerpts from Glyn Maxwell’s adaptation of Anatole France’s Les Dieux Ont Soif.
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Dance
Energy fields
by Laura Jacobs
On the choreography of Larry Keigwin and Jonathon Appels.
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Theater
Weill bodies
by Brooke Allen
On the musical LoveMusik and the influence of Kurt Weill.
Art
Frank Stella three ways
by Karen Wilkin
On the artist’s works at Paul Kasmin Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Surreal Things” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On Wolf Kahn at Ameringer Yohe Fine Arts, George Baselitz at David Nolan Gallery, Charles Burchfield at DC Moore Gallery, “Magical Means: Milton Avery and Watercolor” at Knoedler & Company, Joan Mitchell at Cheim & Read Gallery & “A Century and a Half in the Art Business” at James Graham & Sons.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
Looking back on the 2006-2007 season.
The media
Getting it right
by James Bowman
On the late David Halberstam.
Verse chronicle
Let’s do it, let’s fall in luff
by William Logan
On A Worldly Country by John Ashbery, Forty-Five by Frieda Hughes, Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong, Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel, and Selected Poems: Expanded Edition by Robert Lowell.
Books
The Heraclitus of New Hampshire
by Eric Ormsby
On The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen
Of arms & a man
by Bruce S. Thornton
A damn close-run thing
by Daniel Johnson
On Niccolo Capponi’s Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto.
Strive mightily
by Stefan Beck
On Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Mr. Winesburg
by Molly McQuade
On Walter Rideout’s Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America.
Thinking makes it so
by Paul Dean
Timeless forms
by Anthony Alofsin
On Carter Wiseman’s Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time & Style, A Life in Architecture.
White on white
by Tomas Venclova
On Regina Derieva’s Alien Matter: Selected Poems.
Shorter notice
by Franklin Winslow
On John Heilpern’s John Osborne.
Shorter notice
by Ellie Thermansen
On Wayne Franklin’s James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years.
Notes & Comments
A footnote on Ward Churchill
by The Editors
On the University of Colorado’s disgraced academic.
Mr. Smith goes to Hanover
by The Editors
On Stephen Smith, Dartmouth College’s latest addition to its board of trustees.
Headline of the month
by The Editors
On the pious reverence of the New York Times for “hip-hop.”
Some words of thanks
by The Editors
An expression of gratitude.