November 2021
Columbus Day
On recent hostility towards the fifteenth-century explorer.
Issues
Volume 40, Number 3 / November 2021
Notes & Comments
November 2021
Education apocalypse now
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
November 2021
Fear
On the desire for freedom.
Features
Western civilization at the crossroads: III
November 2021
The specter of Chinese civilization
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
November 2021
Is America in irreversible decline?
On the future of the United States.
November 2021
Chasing the Man-Moth
On Elizabeth Bishop’s subway creature.
November 2021
Goodbye to all that
On Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End.
Poems
November 2021
The wasp in the lamp
November 2021
Old Faust
November 2021
Echolocation
Reconsiderations
November 2021
Immigration, crime & the leftist mind
On the Wallander novels by Henning Mankell.
Theater
November 2021
Acceptance
On Chicken & Biscuits at Circle in the Square, Sanctuary City at Lucille Lortel Theatre & Letters of Suresh at Second Stage Theater.
Art
November 2021
Richardson’s Picasso, volume IV
On A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 by John Richardson.
November 2021
A Rickey Renaissance
On the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor.
November 2021
Exhibition note
On “Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel” at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
November 2021
Gallery chronicle
On “Lois Dodd” at Alexandre Gallery, “Marin in the White Mountains” at Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, “John Ferren: From Paris to Springs” at Findlay Galleries, “Frederick J. Brown: The Sound of Color” at Berry Campbell & “Amy Lincoln” at Sperone Westwater.
Music
November 2021
New York chronicle
On the Metropolitan Opera’s performances of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
The media
November 2021
Deliberate falsehoods
On lies in the media.
Fiction chronicle
November 2021
Huis clos
On The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Hard Like Water, by Yan Lianke, Awake, by Harald Voetmann & A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray, by Dominique Barbéris.
Notebook
November 2021
Archaeology’s burial
On the politicization of archaeology.
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