The case of Stephen Greenblatt
by Bruce Bawer
On the career of the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt.
Features
Yale’s sense of place
by Peter Pennoyer
On the two new residential colleges at Yale.
The Chamberlain trap
by Arthur Waldron
On the misapplication of Thucydides to international relations.
Getting to grips with Goethe
by Daniel Johnson
Reconsidering the literary relevance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Internal rot
by Anthony Daniels
On the graduate exhibition of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
Theater
Overthrowing regimes
by Kyle Smith
On 1984 at the Hudson Theatre, Michael Moore: The Terms of My Surrender at the Belasco Theatre, and Miss Saigon at the Broadway Theatre.
Art
London chronicle
by Dominic Green
On “The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt” at the National Portrait Gallery, London; “Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity” at Leighton House Museum; and “Quentin Blake: The Only Way to Travel” at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings-on-Sea, UK.
Man on the move
by Eric Gibson
On “Becoming Henry Moore” at the Henry Moore Foundation in Much Hadham, UK.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Richard Gerstl” at the Neue Galerie New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Canaletto and the Art of Venice” at the Queen’s Gallery in London.
Death of taste in Venice
by James Panero
On the 2017 Venice Biennale and Damien Hirst’s “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable” at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lincoln Center Festival, and the Newport Music Festival.
The media
Decency for deplorables
by James Bowman
On the media’s attack on decency and the decline of civilized discourse.
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Notebook
Joseph Rago, 1983—2017
by Benjamin Riley
Remembering the life of Joseph Rago.
Notes & Comments
Inebriates of virtue
by The Editors
On iconoclasm and the restriction of free speech.