Is America Periclean?
by Victor Davis Hanson
The second entry in our essay series “Future tense: the lessons of culture in a time of upheaval.”
Features
Lionel Trilling & the critical imagination
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
On the critic’s “moral realism.”
Getting used to the f-word
by William D. Gairdner
On the rise of microfascism in Western democracies.
Alexandria, Durrell & the “Quartet”
by John Derbyshire
On the lost Levant of Durrell’s series.
Poems
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Letters from the World
Brutal blueprints
by Anthony Daniels
On the architecture of Brasilia.
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Reconsiderations
Comedy in “The Magic Mountain”
by Jeffrey Meyers
On Thomas Mann’s sense of humor.
Theater
Real drama
by Kevin D. Williamson
On the Fiasco Theater’s Cymbelline & The Wood by Dan Klores.
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Art
Feininger at the Whitney
by Karen Wilkin
On “Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World.”
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Will Barnet at 100” at the National Academy Museum; “Will Barnet: Small Works on Paper from the 1950s” at Alexandre Gallery; “Lars and Lori” at Valentine, Queens; “Sally Pettus: Paintings from the Perimeter” at KS Art; “Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun” at Knoedler & Company; “Richard Timperio: Paintings 2011” at Art 101, Brooklyn & “Loren Munk: Location, Location, Location, Mapping the New York Art World” at Lesley Heller Workspace.
Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the annual classical music festival in Austria.
The media
A partisan memorial
by James Bowman
On the politics of commemoration.
Books
out of interstitials
Notebook
Tigers in the wood
by David Solway
On poetic form.
Notes & Comments
Veritas or Vanitas
by The Editors
On virtue at Harvard.