September 2020
The mob comes for the art world
On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Issues
Volume 39, Number 1 / September 2020
Notes & Comments
September 2020
We welcome Myron Magnet
Introducing our second annual Visiting Critic.
Features
September 2020
Gray mists & ancient stones
An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.
September 2020
Forests of Ardens
On the Arden Shakespeare series.
September 2020
Hypocrite hector
A review of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo & How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
September 2020
Knights & their ladies fair
On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
Poems
September 2020
Apollonius in India
September 2020
Untitled
Reflections
September 2020
Hildebrand’s aesthetics of the universal
On the philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand.
September 2020
True lies
On the Italian turncoat and fabulist Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.
Theater
September 2020
Chekhov’s 2020 vision
On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
Art
September 2020
COVID chronicle
On artists in lockdown.
Music
September 2020
Livestream chronicle
A review of recent livestreams from the Orchestra of St Luke’s, The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Les Arts Florissants & The Boulanger Initiative.
The media
September 2020
Mostly peaceful
On the media’s attempt to explain away mob violence.
Notebook
September 2020
A classical illness
On the pathology of recent protests.
September 2020
Richard Gilder, 1932–2020
On the life of one of New York City’s great philanthropists.
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