America resumed: 9/11 remembered
by Michael J. Lewis
The first entry in our series “Future tense: the lessons of culture in an age of upheaval.”
Features
Beauty locked out
by Alexander McCall Smith
On the role of the positive in fiction.
What’s wrong with our universities?
by James Piereson
On the ailing state of higher education.
G. K. Chesterton: master of rejuvenation
by Roger Kimball
On the vitality of the Jolly Journalist’s work.
The bright ghosts of antiquity
by John Talbot
On the enduring legacy of the Loeb Library.
Stephen Crane’s strange singing
by Michael Dirda
On the poetry of Stephen Crane.
The ruler of law
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On “justice” in the age of Obama.
Pound notes
by Denis Donoghue
On Ezra Pound’s correspondence with his parents.
Blunder at the Biennale
by James Panero
On the Department of State’s diplomatic flop at the Venice Biennale.
The pious provincial
by Marco Grassi
On the sublime artistry of Lorenzo Lotto.
Crooked lines
by Eric Ormsby
On Paul Claudel’s lasting influence in French letters.
These are the poems, folks
by David Yezzi
On the relationship between poetry and joke-telling.
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Points of View
by Anthony Daniels
Reconsidering the power of photography.
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Manners & Morals
The past is a foreign country
by David Pryce-Jones
On the politicization of historiography.
Theater
Shakespeare in the dark
by Kevin D. Williamson
On the RSC’s Romeo and Juliet, Sleep No More & Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.
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The Steins & Cones collect
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde” & “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore.”
Art
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “The Vorticists” at Tate Britain.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “Kurt Schwitters: Color & Collage” at Houston’s Menil Collection.
Exhibition note
by Alexander Nazaryan
On “The American Style: Colonial Revival & the Modern Metropolis” at the Museum of the City of New York.
Exhibition note
by James Panero
On “Simon Dinnerstein: The Fulbright Triptych & Selected Works” at The German Consulate General, New York.
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Music
“Musical love letters to God”
by Jay Nordlinger
On Bruckner & the Lincoln Center Festival.
The media
The incivility of civility
by James Bowman
On the intellectual vanity of our public culture.
Books
out of interstitials
Notebook
The last of a magical breed
by David Mason
I.M. Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1915–2011.
Notes & Comments
The New Criterion at 30
by The Editors
Announcing our anniversary season.
The Hamilton follies, cont’d
by The Editors
On the ivory sepulcher.