April 2020
Cancel culture comstockery
On Woody Allen and the Hachette Book Group.
Issues
Volume 38, Number 8 / April 2020
Notes & Comments
Features
Poetry: a special section
April 2020
Private parties: the forgotten letters of Anthony Hecht
On A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald, edited by Philip Hoy.
Poetry: a special section
April 2020
Jane Kenyon’s seasons
On The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon, selected by Donald Hall.
Poetry: a special section
April 2020
An equilateral triangle
On Robert Frost, Edward Thomas & Walter de la Mare.
Poetry: a special section
April 2020
The silence of A. M. Klein
On the Canadian poet’s mystifying solitude.
Poetry: a special section
April 2020
T. S. Eliot’s animus
On T. S. Eliot and the role of the poet-critic.
Poems
Poetry: a special section
April 2020
“The cemetery by the sea”
A new translation of Paul Valéry’s “Cemetery by the sea.”
Reflections
April 2020
The astonishing Pieter de Hooch
On the quiet intimacy of the Dutch painter’s work.
Theater
April 2020
The United States of Shakespeare
On Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro.
Art
April 2020
“Vida Americana” at the Whitney
On “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
April 2020
Facing Lucian Freud
On The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922–1968, by William Feaver & on “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
April 2020
The passion of Donald Judd
On “Judd” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
April 2020
Monumental madness
On the neglected Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park.
Music
April 2020
New York chronicle
On Tread Softly by Nina C. Young, a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen, Stride by Tania Léon, the nine Beethoven symphonies at Carnegie Hall, and a recital of personal interest.
The media
April 2020
Incredible times
On glass-house warfare.
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