“The Idiot” savant
by Gary Saul Morson
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot.
Features
Moscow on the Thames
by Gerald Frost
On Russian kleptocracy.
Operatic precocity
by Heather Mac Donald
On the fledgling musical career of Alma Deutscher.
Powell’s prescience
by Simon Heffer
On “Rivers of Blood” at fifty.
Poems
Most popular
Reconsiderations
The metamorphosis of David Jones
by Ian Tuttle
A review of David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth.
Theater
New York stories
by Kyle Smith
On Angels in America at the Neil Simon Theatre, Lobby Hero at the Helen Hayes Theater & Harry Clarke at the Minetta Lane Theater.
Art
Vile bodies at the Met
by Eric Gibson
On “Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body (1300–Now)” at the Met Breuer.
Cézanne portraits in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
On “Cézanne Portraits” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On “Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Leon Golub: Raw Nerve” at the Met Breuer.
Exhibition note
by Andrew L. Shea
On “Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Jeffrey Meyers
On “Wayne Thiebaud: 1958–1968” at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Picasso: difficulties with girls
by Dominic Green
On “Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy” at Tate Modern, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth” at The Broad, Los Angeles, “James Little: Slants and White Paintings” at June Kelly Gallery, “John Bradford: Hamilton, History, Lincoln and Paint” at Anna Zorina Gallery & “David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]” at Pace, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On a new violin concerto, stagings at the Metropolitan Opera, and concerts by the Bavarian State Opera, led by Kirill Petrenko.
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The media
Stormy weather
by James Bowman
On recent developments in the world of media.
Fiction chronicle
Not just remembrance
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, Theory of Shadows by Paolo Maurensig, A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré & The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Koreaby Bandi.
Books
The drama of Alcibiades
by Daisy Dunn
Glorious Gainsborough
by Henrik Bering
Writing from the gutter
by Adam I. W. Schwartzman
On the literary accomplishments of Denis Johnson.
Everyday loss
by Rachel Hadas
On the poetry of Debora Greger.
Notebook
Notes toward an introduction
by William Logan
On poetic criticism.
Notes & Comments
Annals of leftist autophagy
by The Editors
On Leftist friendly fire at the Brooklyn Museum.
Holy Cross-dressing
by The Editors
On the perverted scholarship of a religious studies professor.