Confucian confusions
by Eric Ormsby
On A. David Moody’s Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939–1972.
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The globalist legal agenda
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, by Stephen Breyer
The master off duty
by Bruce Bawer
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1926-1929, edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon
Calasso’s memory of Antiquity
by Dominic Green
How did Roberto Calasso piece together the afterlife of ancient images?
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American justice
by Anthony Daniels
Revisiting Conversations with the Dead, by Danny Lyon, almost half a century after its original publication.
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Reconsiderations
Why “Civilisation” matters
by Drew Oliver
Why Kenneth Clark’s 1969 television show still matters today.
Theater
Remembrance of flings past
by Kyle Smith
On Our Mother’s Brief Affair at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre & The Color Purple at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
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Art
Alex Katz at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On “Alex Katz at the Met” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & “Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s” at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On “Maestà : Gaddi’s Triptych Reunited” at the New-York Historical Society.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Greater New York” at MOMA PS1, New York.
Unfulfilled promises in North Adams
by Daniel Grant
Why has the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art failed to achieve its original goals?
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Katherine Bradford: Fear of Waves” & “Elisabeth Kley: Ozymandias” at Canada; “Carolanna Parlato: A Delicate Balance” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery; “Ronnie Landfield: Five Decades” at Stux + Haller; & “Lori Ellison” at McKenzie Fine Art.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On The Pearl Fishers, James Gaffigan at the New York Philharmonic, Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall, & more.
The media
The king of tastelessness
by James Bowman
Has all TV become reality TV?
Books
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Notebook
Remembering Shiva Naipaul
by J. Oliver Conroy
Looking back on the achievements of the author’s tragically short life.
Notes & Comments
Rhodes not taken
by The Editors
On the recent controversy over the Rhodes Scholarship.