The specter of Chinese civilization
by Angelo M. Codevilla
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
Features
Is America in irreversible decline?
by Conrad Black
On the future of the United States.
Chasing the Man-Moth
by William Logan
On Elizabeth Bishop’s subway creature.
Goodbye to all that
by David Hein
On Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End.
Poems
Most Popular
Reconsiderations
Immigration, crime & the leftist mind
by Gerald Frost
On the Wallander novels by Henning Mankell.
Theater
Acceptance
by Kyle Smith
On Chicken & Biscuits at Circle in the Square, Sanctuary City at Lucille Lortel Theatre & Letters of Suresh at Second Stage Theater.
Art
Richardson’s Picasso, volume IV
by Karen Wilkin
On A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 by John Richardson.
A Rickey Renaissance
by Eric Gibson
On the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel” at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
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
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
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.
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The media
Deliberate falsehoods
by James Bowman
On lies in the media.
Fiction chronicle
Huis clos
by Andrew Stuttaford
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.
Books
Notebook
Archaeology’s burial
by Peter W. Wood
On the politicization of archaeology.
Notes & Comments
Columbus Day
by The Editors
On recent hostility towards the fifteenth-century explorer.
Education apocalypse now
by The Editors
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
Fear
by The Editors
On the desire for freedom.