Issues
Volume 30, Number 10 / June 2012
Notes & Comments
Features
June 2012
Future tense, X: The fourth revolution
On the possibility of a forthcoming political revolution.
June 2012
Future tense, XI: The lessons of culture
On culture’s role in the economy of life and the fragility of civilization.
June 2012
The limits of universalism
On Burkean conservatism.
June 2012
The “new” Barnes
On the Barnes Foundation’s new location in Philadelphia.
Poems
June 2012
The spigot
June 2012
Steel of Pennsylvania
June 2012
The ferry
Letter from . . .
June 2012
Europe between the Václavs
On the development of the Czech Republic.
Theater
June 2012
Resurrection of a salesman
On Death of a Salesman, Ghost, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Art
June 2012
Joan Miró in Washington
On “Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
June 2012
Hidden affinities
On “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
June 2012
Exhibition notice
On “Dreams of Nature: Symbolism from Van Gogh to Kandinsky” at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
June 2012
Exhibition notice
On “Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude” at The National Gallery, London.
June 2012
Gallery chronicle
On the outer-borough art scene, “This Side of Paradise” at the Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, New York, “Frieze New York” at Randall’s Island, and “Carol Salmanson/Stephen Truax” at the Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn.
Music
June 2012
New York chronicle
On recent performances by Sandrine Piau, Lisa Batiashvili, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Evgeny Kissin, the New York Philharmonic, and more.
The media
June 2012
Welcome to fantasyland
On European austerity, Obama’s position on gay marriage, and political fantasy.
Verse chronicle
June 2012
Guys & Dove
On Almost Invisible by Mark Strand, Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill, Selected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Thomas Karshan, and The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove.
Notebook
June 2012
The mendacity of Walter Duranty
On an unearned Pulitzer and some of history’s most deceitful reporting.
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