November 2015
Misanthropic nostalgia
On the green movement’s latest agenda.
On the green movement’s latest agenda.
Has the First Amendment completely disappeared from college campuses?
A review of Kissinger, by Niall Ferguson.
Don Quixote at four hundred.
Is nature writing making a comeback in Britain?
A review of The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate, edited by Gordon Wood.
Introduction to a selection from Euripides’ Medea, translated by Charles Martin
What does the election of Jeremy Corbyn mean for both British and American politics?
Why do the humanities continue to lose students to STEM fields?
On Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Fool for Love at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and Old Times at the American Airlines Theatre.
On “Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
On “Beauté Congo 1926–2015” at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
On “Painting Is Not Doomed To Repeat Itself” at Hollis Taggart Galleries; “Checkered History: The Grid in Art & Life” at Outpost Artists Resources; “Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay, 2013–2015” at Fox Gallery NYC; “Diphthong” at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center; “Todd Bienvenu: Exile on Bogart Street” at Life on Mars; “Occo Socko!” at Stout Projects.
On “The Art of the Score,” Verdi’s Otello, Puccini’s Turandot, and more.
Has the media demonized the opposition?
On Quicksand, by Steve Toltz; Paris Nocturne, by Patrick Modiano; The State We’re In, by Ann Beattie; and The Night Stages, by Jane Urquhart.
On the complicated relationship between the writers.
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