The scab & the wound beneath
by Victor Davis Hanson
On painful realities in the age of the coronavirus.
Features
Robert Conquest’s open eyes
by Dick Davis
On a man of many talents and his poetry.
George Will’s “conservatism”
by James Piereson
On The Conservative Sensibility, by George F. Will.
How to wage war
by Barry Strauss
On Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History, by Andrew Roberts & Military Strategy: A Global History, by Jeremy Black.
Poems
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Reflections
Gide’s judgment
by Anthony Daniels
Rereading André Gide’s Souvenirs de la cour d’assises.
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Reconsiderations
Anyone for Peter De Vries?
by Jonathan Leaf
On the career of the largely forgotten novelist.
Theater
Absolutely Agate
by Kyle Smith
On the theatrical life of James Agate.
Art
Peintre géologue: Cézanne at Princeton
by Karen Wilkin
On “Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings” at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Remaking the Met?
by Marco Grassi
A response to “How to Save America’s Biggest Museums—A Manifesto,” by Holland Cotter.
Exhibition note
by David Platzer
On “Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things” at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Andrew L. Shea
On “Gerhard Richter: Painting After All” at the Met Breuer.
Like the plague
by James Panero
On the art of illness in Venice.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On an all-Bach recital by Daniil Trifonov; Beethoven trios with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos; and livestream concerts with the New York Festival of Song, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
The media
Experts in spate
by James Bowman
On “science” as professed by non-scientists.
Fiction chronicle
Myself, ourselves, others
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Interior, by Thomas Clerc; The Sweet Indifference of the World, by Peter Stamm; the short-story collection Machines in the Head, by Anna Kavan; and Beyond the Sea, by Paul Lynch.
Books
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Notebook
Samuel Pepys’s merry plague-time
by Clive Aslet
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
Notes & Comments
The culture of corona
by The Editors
On smoke, mirrors & glimpses of truth.