Burke & Trump
by Conrad Black
Remarks by this year’s recipient of the Edmund Burke Award.
Features
The God that flickered
by Gary Saul Morson
On Alexander Herzen and the revolutionary mind.
Leaping the fence
by Nicola Shulman
On English gardens and style.
“Beowulf” & history
by Jacob Howland
On men and monsters in the great Anglo-Saxon epic.
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Reflections
Another look at “The History Man”
by Steve Morris
On Malcolm Bradbury and his novel of choices.
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Reconsiderations
The woman who saw the future
by James Panero
On Anna Bowman Dodd and The Republic of the Future.
Dance
“West Side Story” without Robbins
by Laura Jacobs
On the new production by Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Theater
The puritan bohemian
by Kyle Smith
On the fame of George Bernard Shaw.
Art
Raphael, interrupted
by James Hankins
On Raphael’s brief turn as an architect.
Matisse & the surrogate figure
by Karen Wilkin
On Henri Matisse and his mediated images.
Bernini & Buonarroti
by Eric Gibson
On Bernini’s Michaelangelo by Carolina Mangone.
Exhibition note
by Clive Aslet
On “Piranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity” at the British Museum, London.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Igor Levit in Germany; Maxim Vengerov, Peter Laul & Boris Andrianov in St. Petersburg; Robert Kahn’s “America the Beautiful”; and the Met’s “at-home gala.”
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The media
After algebra
by James Bowman
On equations in the media.
Verse chronicle
The rules of the game
by William Logan
On In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché, Nobody: A Rhapsody to Homer by Alice Oswald, Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, Stranger at Night by Edward Hirsch, After Callimachus by Stephanie Burt, and Summer Snow by Robert Hass.
Books
Notebook
The choleric outbreak
by Theodore Dalrymple
On anger and its contemporary causes.
Notes & Comments
The dark side of farce
by The Editors
On The 1619 Project’s Pulitzer Prize.
Many thanks & a few farewells
by The Editors
The 2019–2020 season comes to a close.