Pound’s China/Pound’s “Cathay”
by William Logan
A review of Cathay: A Critical Edition, by Ezra Pound, edited by Timothy Billings.
Features
An interview with Christian Wiman
by David Yezzi
The New Criterion’s poetry editor interviews the poet, editor, and teacher.
Ex libris
by Paul Dean
A review of Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature, by Stuart Kells.
Alcman among the nightingales
by Christopher Childers
On the Partheneion, by Alcman, Sparta’s greatest poet.
The poet as windowpane
by Sunil Iyengar
A review of James Wright: A Life in Poetry, by Jonathan Blunk.
Poems
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Reflections
Envy–the good kind
by Stephen Miller
On the virtues of the classic vice.
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Reconsiderations
Martin Green’s treasure hunt
by David Platzer
Rereading Martin Green’s Children of the Sun.
Theater
Back to beginnings
by Kyle Smith
On Merrily We Roll Along at the Laura Pels Theatre, Shadow of a Gunman at the Irish Rep, and Fiddler on the Roof at Stage 42.
Art
Hans Hofmann in Berkeley
by Karen Wilkin
On “Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction” at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
From statues to sculpture
by Eric Gibson
On “Rethinking the Modern Monument” at the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia.
Winston’s brush with history
by Dominic Green
A review of Churchill: The Statesman as Artist, by David Cannadine.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher and the New York Philharmonic, Igudesman & Joo, and Falstaff and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera.
The media
Make-believe worlds
by James Bowman
On the Mueller report and the Jussie Smollett scandal.
Books
Notebook
Jeffrey Hart, 1930—2019
by James Panero
Remembering the great literary scholar and editor.
Notes & Comments
Nothin’ like a dame
by The Editors
On the debate over a fictional portrayal of Dr. James Barry, née Margaret Ann Bulkley.
Woke’s on you
by The Editors
On the “radical intersectionalist poet” Titania McGrath.