Waiting for the grammarians
by Eric Ormsby
On the Collected Poems and The Unfinished Poems of C. P. Cavafy, newly translated by Daniel Mendelsohn.
On the Collected Poems and The Unfinished Poems of C. P. Cavafy, newly translated by Daniel Mendelsohn.
On Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life, by Paul Mariani and the necessity of critical distance.
On Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz and Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton and Thomas Travisano.
On the poetry & criticism of Edward Thomas.
On the PC firestorm following the the Oscar victory of Slumdog Millionaire.
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On Enter Laughing: The Musical at the York Theatre, The Savannah Disputation at Playwrights Horizons, 33 Variations at Eugene O’Neill Theater, and the closing of Forbidden Broadway.
On “Cézanne and Beyond” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On 1Q2US, the Winter Antiques Show 2009, The Armory Show, The Art Show & “Placing Avery: Paintings and Prints from the Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art” at the UBS Gallery.
On “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view through May 11, 2009.
On “Shell-Shocked: Expressionism After the Great War” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on view through April 19, 2009.
On “Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts” at the Yale Center for British Art, on view through May 3, 2009.
On James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Ann Sofie von Otter and Stephen Hough at Carnegie Hall; Adriana Lecouvreur, Eugence Onegin, and Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera; Montserrat Caballé at Avery Fisher Hall; the Chamber Music Society of Licoln Center at Alice Tully Hall; Pinchas Zukerman and Marc Neikrug at the 92nd St. Y; Danielle de Niese at Weill Recital Hall; and Zubin Mehta with the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
On false intimacy and its obligations in the global media village.
A review of Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O’Driscoll (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
A review of Shakespeare and Modern Culture, by Marjorie Garber (Pantheon).
A review of Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography, by Renee Winegarten (Yale University Press).
A review of Music Quickens Time, by Daniel Barenboim (Verso).
A review of James Agee: Selected Poems, edited by Andrew Hudgins (American Poets Project).
On the cult of celebrity.
Notes & Comments
The Europe syndrome
by The Editors
On the perils of the welfare state: spiritual enfeeblement & the rise of the “Last Man”