An excerpt from Robert H. Bork’s forthcoming memoir, Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General (Encounter Books).
How Washington cheated a celebrated jurist out of a Supreme Court nomination.
Reconsidering the “rogue” architecture of Frank Furness.
On the letters of P. G. Wodehouse.
On relations between the French intelligentsia and the Soviets.
Reexamining Iris Murdoch, her love of culture, and Marsyas.
On The Heiress, Dead Accounts, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
On “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
On “Go F!GURE: Contemporary Chinese Portraiture” at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia.
On “Lois Dodd: Selected Panel Paintings” at Alexandre Gallery, “Paul Resika: 8+8, Eight Paintings from Eight Decades” at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, “Paul Resika: 8+8, Eight Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, “Mario Naves: Recent Paintings” and “Brett Baker: Paintings” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, and “Sharon Butler: Precisionist Casual” at Pocket Utopia.
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On Les Troyens, Maria Stuarda, preformances by Jan Lisiecki, Jean-Yves Thinbaudet, Pinchas Zukerman, the Emerson String Quartet, and more.
On “Plebgate,” leaks, and journalistic failings.
On the conservative ways of the Queen Mother.
Notes & Comments
Moody’s vs. higher ed
by The Editors
More on the crisis in higher education.
Robert H. Bork, 1927—2012
by The Editors
Remembering the late jurist, Robert H. Bork.
Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921—2013
by The Editors
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic.