Private parties: the forgotten letters of Anthony Hecht
by William Logan
On A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald, edited by Philip Hoy.
Features
Jane Kenyon’s seasons
by Averill Curdy
On The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon, selected by Donald Hall.
An equilateral triangle
by William Wootten
On Robert Frost, Edward Thomas & Walter de la Mare.
The silence of A. M. Klein
by Carmine Starnino
On the Canadian poet’s mystifying solitude.
T. S. Eliot’s animus
by Adam Kirsch
On T. S. Eliot and the role of the poet-critic.
Poems
“The cemetery by the sea”
by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody
A new translation of Paul Valéry’s “Cemetery by the sea.”
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Reflections
The astonishing Pieter de Hooch
by Anthony Daniels
On the quiet intimacy of the Dutch painter’s work.
Theater
The United States of Shakespeare
by Kyle Smith
On Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro.
Art
“Vida Americana” at the Whitney
by Karen Wilkin
On “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Facing Lucian Freud
by Andrew L. Shea
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.
The passion of Donald Judd
by Eric Gibson
On “Judd” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Monumental madness
by James Panero
On the neglected Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
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
Incredible times
by James Bowman
On glass-house warfare.
Notes & Comments
Cancel culture comstockery
by The Editors
On Woody Allen and the Hachette Book Group.