Churchill’s debt to Burke
by Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts’s remarks at the seventh annual Edmund Burke Award Gala.
Features
“Unsavoury humbug”
by Robert Messenger
A review of Philip Larkin: Letters Home, edited by James Booth.
Studies in clubbability
by Pat Rogers
A review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch.
Power outage
by Laura Jacobs
On the year in dance.
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Berlin’s walls
by David Pryce-Jones
On Isaiah Berlin and his friends and family.
Theater
States of chassis
by Kyle Smith
On Nantucket Sleigh Ride at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Rep, and The Cradle Will Rock at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater.
Art
Pierre Bonnard at Tate Modern
by Karen Wilkin
On “The C. C. Land Exhibition: Bonnard: The Colour of Memory” at Tate Modern, London.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture” at the Frick Collection, New York.
Exhibition note
by Belinda Rathbone
On “The Bauhaus and Harvard,” at The Busch-Reisinger Museum.
The Kirstein paradox
by Eric Gibson
On “Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The spirits of the city
by James Panero
On the new Hudson Yards development in New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Jean Rondeau; Zhao Lin at the New York Philharmonic; Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis, and Daniel Müller-Schott; Thomas Adès; and Juho Pohjonen.
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The media
Irony of ironies
by James Bowman
On self-parody and coverage of the Mueller report.
Fiction chronicle
Myths, legends & monsters
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Metamorphica, by Zachary Mason; The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths of Cumberland County, by Mason Ball; 77, by Guillermo Saccomanno; Article 35: A Novel, by Tanguy Viel; and Rock and Roll Is Life, by D. J. Taylor.
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The last Victorian
by Henrik Bering
Highlights from a lifetime of reading.
Notes & Comments
“Massive retaliation”: the only answer
by The Editors
On Roger Scruton’s removal from Britain’s Building Better, Building Beautiful commission.
Paul Hollander, 1932—2019
by The Editors
Remembering our friend and frequent contributor.