The Jacobean dramatist
by Denis Donoghue
On James Shapiro’s appraisals of Shakespeare.
Features
Give sorrow words
by Kevin D. Williamson
On the many stagings of Macbeth.
Shakespeare’s rotten weeds, Shakespeare’s deep trenches
by William Logan
On Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Shakespeare’s Good Books
by Paul Dean
On Shakespeare’s religious sources.
Understanding Shakespeare
by Brett Gamboa
On attempting to “translate” Shakespeare.
“Transposingly in love”: Hecht & Shakespeare
by David Yezzi
On Anthony Hecht’s engagement with Shakespeare.
Poems
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Culture
The scars of Lorelei
by Stephen Eide
On the rebirth of a Bronx monument.
Theater
Chambers of horror
by Kyle Smith
On Blackbird, at the Belasco Theatre; The Royale, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse at Lincoln Center; and Eclipsed, at the Golden Theatre.
Art
“Unfinished” at Met Breuer
by Karen Wilkin
On “Unfinished” at Met Breuer.
London chronicle
by Dominic Green
On “Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art,” at the National Gallery, London; “Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection” at Leighton House Museum, London; and “Botticelli Reimagined” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Meryl Meisler” at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York; “The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and “Michelle Vaughan: Generations” at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Manon Lescaut, at the Metropolitan Opera; Juraj Valcuha at the NY Phil; the Jasper String Quartet at Weill Recital Hall; the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall; and The King and I at Lincoln Center.
The media
Politics without honor
by James Bowman
On the loss of honor in the political sphere.
Books
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Notebook
The politics of (new) music
by Daniel Asia
On the political degradation of new music.
Notes & Comments
Glaciers and sex
by The Editors
On the academy’s latest folly.