October 2020
Ideas have consequences
On recent developments in “Critical Race Theory.”
Issues
Volume 39, Number 2 / October 2020
Notes & Comments
Features
October 2020
Of, by & for the freedmen
On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.
October 2020
War as an art form
On the Australian war correspondent and writer Alan Moorehead.
October 2020
Keats & the pronunciation of “Cortez”
On a problematic line from Keats’s famous sonnet, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”
October 2020
“The same adorable source”
A review of Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding.
Poems
October 2020
Next to nothing
October 2020
Tui
October 2020
The Marlborough Sounds
Letter from . . .
October 2020
The infantilizing of England
On the moral ramifications of Britain’s quarantine.
October 2020
Mali memories
On travels in Africa and life in France.
Reflections
October 2020
All over but the crying
On Lali and Freddy Horstmann.
Art
October 2020
Félix Fénéon at MOMA
On “Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant Garde—from Signac to Matisse and Beyond” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
October 2020
Exhibition note
On “Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain” at the Pallant House Gallery, North Pallant, United Kingdom.
October 2020
Exhibition note
On “Léon Spilliaert” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
October 2020
Struggle session
On “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Music
October 2020
Salzburg chronicle
On the 2020 Salzburg Festival.
The media
October 2020
A mystery
On American hatred and inexplicable coalitions.
Notebook
October 2020
William Seale’s approach to preservation
On the life and work of the historian of the White House.
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