Teaching a dumpling to dance
by Eric Ormsby
On The Poetry of Rilke: Bilingual Edition, translated by Edward Snow.
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by Denis Donoghue
On Prefaces to Shakespeare, by Tony Tanner.
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by William Logan
On the critical prose of Donald Justice.
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On Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry.
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On the poetry of Dorothy Parker.
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Tis thing of darkness
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind with Ethan Hawke, The Bridge Project’s The Tempest directed by Sam Mendes & the Babel Theatre Project Brack’s Last Bachelor Party.
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Art
Perpetual winter in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
On “Hendrick Avercamp: Master of the Ice Scene” at the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam & “Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Sargent, Sickert & Spencer” at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.
Exhibtion note
by Mario Naves
“William Kentridge: Five Themes” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
The Armory Show at the Chelsea Piers; ADAA’s Art Show & the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory; “William Bailey: New Work” at the Betty Cuningham Gallery & “Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations” at Knoedler & Company.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Mariinsky Orchestra, Olga Borodina & the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, Pierre-Laurent Aimard playing George Benjamin’s Piano Figures at Alice Tully Hall, The Daughter of the Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera, Jessica Douglas-Home’s Violet: A Dramatization in Words and Music of the Life of Violet Gordon Woodhouse & Michael Hersch’s Last Autumn at Merkin Hall
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Islam vs. Islamism
by The Editors
Is there such a thing as moderate Islam?