Citizens into prisoners
by Henry A. Kissinger
A foreword to “The Berlin Wall: 20 years after.”
A foreword to “The Berlin Wall: 20 years after.”
Why we must not forget the lessons of the Berlin Wall.
On President Kennedy’s failure in the face of barbed wire.
On the realities of cultural transformation in Russia.
On the intellectual irresponsibility of Soviet sympathizers.
On The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker; Generosity: An Enhancement, by Richard Powers; Homer & Langley, by E. L. Doctorow; and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
On Jude Law in Hamlet, the Atlantic Theater Company’s Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Collaborative Stages’s House of Yes, and The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb.
On “Watteau, Music, and Theater” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On “The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy,” Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont.
On “In Pursuit of Knowledge: 600 Years of Leipzig University,” The Grolier Club, New York.
On “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction” at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.
On “Sam Francis: 1953–1959”at L&M Arts; “Jay Milder: Recent Work” at Lohin Geduld Gallery; “Abby Leigh: The Sleeper’s Eye” at Betty Cuningham Gallery & “Silver Anniversary: 25 Photographs, 1835 to 1914” at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs.
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On the Europeanization of the Metropolitan Opera, Alan Gilbert’s New York Philharmonic, Paul Jacobs at Juiliard, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
On the art of forgetting selectively.
Debunking the myth of “Homeric” Balkan folk songs.
Notes & Comments
Yale & the veil
by The Editors
On Islamist pressure in New Haven.