The cultural contradictions of J. M. Keynes
by James Piereson
On the insights & limitations of the influential economist.
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Beckett before
by Denis Donoghue
Potempkin prisons: inside the Museum of the Gulag
by Jonathan Brent
On Russia’s continuing inability to confront its Stalinist past.
Of trinities, mafias & art
by Michael J. Lewis
On the half-century tenure of William H. Pierson, Lane Faison & Whitney Stoddard in the art department at Williams College.
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Fiction chronicle
Caveat emptor
by Stefan Beck
On How to Sell, by Clancy Martin; Lowboy, by John Wray; Sag Harbor, by Colson Whitehead; and How It Ended: New & Collected Stories, by Jay McInerney.
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Theater
The end of the line
by Brooke Allen
On Exit the King, Happiness, Our Town & God of Carnage.
Art
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese in Boston
by Karen Wilkin
On “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice,” at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, on view through August 16, 2009.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Picasso: Mosqueteros” at the Gagosian Gallery & “Edward Minoff” at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Maris Janson & the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras and André Previn’s 80th Birthday at Carnegie Hall; La sonambula, Rusalka, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, & The Elixir of Love at the Metropolitan Opera; and the all-Handel night with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall.
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The media
Superfluous kings for messengers
by James Bowman
On the lack of true greatness in the celebrity era.
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Books
The work of generations
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin.
The armchair alliance
by Victor Davis Hanson
On Masters & Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West , by Andrew Roberts.
The redcoats are coming
by Conrad Black
Almost an imperator
by Bruce S. Thornton
The old New Journalist
by Alexander Nazaryan
Shorter notice
by Callie Siskel
On Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit, by Deborah Warren.
Notebook
Bollocks to vulgarity
by Anthony Daniels
On lowness that proclaims itself.
Notes & Comments
Deprogramming the MFA
by The Editors
On the real consequences of “The Program Era.”
Goodbye, Columbus
by The Editors
The death of a holiday at Brown.
A modest safety proposal
by The Editors
On bureaucratic rules & regulations.