November 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel Committee gets it right for once.
Issues
Volume 29, Number 3 / November 2010
Notes & Comments
November 2010
Speaking of multiculturalism . . .
On Chancellor Merkel’s recent comments.
November 2010
William B. Warren 1934–2010
In memoriam.
Features
November 2010
A taste for wormwood & gall
On the masochism of John Stuart Mill.
November 2010
Pop goes the “Times”
On the decline of the Gray Lady.
November 2010
The many roles of Fanny Kemble
On the life of the great actress & memoirist.
November 2010
The full force of Mahler
On the lasting power of the composer & his tumultuous life.
Poems
November 2010
Time pieces
Fiction chronicle
November 2010
Speak for yourself
On Freedom, 03, A Visit from the Goon Squad & Dogfight, A Love Story.
Theater
November 2010
God & Mammon off Broadway
On For Better or For Worse, An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest & Murder in the Cathedral.
Art
November 2010
Miro’s “Dutch Interiors”
On “Miró: The Dutch Interiors” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
November 2010
Exhibition note
On “Deborah Kass: MORE Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times” at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.
November 2010
Exhibition note
“Jon Schueler: The Castelli Years” at David Findlay, Jr. Fine Art, New York.
November 2010
Gallery chronicle
On “Visual Sensations: The Paintings of Robert Swain, 1967–2010” at the Hunter College Times Square Gallery; “Julian Stanczak: Color–Grid” at Danese Gallery & “On Paper: Painted, Printed, Drawn” at Jill Newhouse Gallery.
Music
November 2010
New York chronicle
On Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera; Wynton Marsalis & Alan Gilbert with the New York Philharmonic; Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Gustavo Dudamel with the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall; and Maa at the Miller Theater.
The media
November 2010
The world’s greatest blowhards
Adventures in punditry.
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