Saint Ted of the Senate
by James Piereson
A review of Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932–1975, by Neal Gabler.
Features
Sybille Bedford at the feast
by D. J. Taylor
On the English memoirist and biographer.
American heretic, American Burke
by Allen C. Guelzo
On John C. Calhoun.
Solzhenitsyn & the engine of history
by Robert D. Kaplan
On Solzhenitsyn’s World War I novels.
Poems
Reflections
Stepping stones
by James Zug
On collecting books.
Meeting Mrs. Mandelstam
by Edward Greenwood
On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
Reconsiderations
Isabel Colegate endures
by David Platzer
On the eighty-nine-year-old novelist’s best books.
Theater
Guys & dolls
by Kyle Smith
A review of Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, by Michael Riedel.
Art
“The Fall Reveal” at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On the fall 2020 rotation of the Museum of Modern Art’s galleries.
Next stop
by James Panero
On the new Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan.
Music
Livestream chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
A review of recent livestreams from the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryn Terfel, the Metropolitan Opera & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The media
Democracy dies in the media
by James Bowman
On truth & silence.
Books
Notebook
Mario Bois’ Bureau de Musique
by Charles Cronin
On the Parisian music publisher.
James T. Demetrion, 1930—2020
by Eric Gibson
On the late director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Notes & Comments
1776
by The Editors
On the 1776 Commission.
Some family news
by The Editors
Saying farewell and welcome at The New Criterion.