March 2021
Canceling classics
On demolishing classical studies in the pursuit of “reparative intellectual justice.”
Issues
Volume 39, Number 7 / March 2021
Notes & Comments
March 2021
French rejection
A Gallic stand against illiberal ideology.
Features
March 2021
“Demons” at 150
On Dostoevsky’s prophetic tale of societal decay.
March 2021
The morality of the fat Owl
On Frank Richards’s Billy Bunter series.
March 2021
Revolutionary characters
On French aristocrats at the twilight of the ancien régime.
March 2021
Devout doubters
On Matthew Arnold & Arthur Hugh Clough.
Poems
March 2021
Canada geese
March 2021
Leviathan
March 2021
All Saints
Reflections
March 2021
The middle ground of fiction
On some midcentury bestsellers.
Reconsiderations
March 2021
Caledonian seeker
On Alexander Carmichael’s compendium of Celtic Christianity.
Theater
March 2021
The most grateful Englishman
On a new biography of the playwright Tom Stoppard.
Art
March 2021
Salman Toor at the Whitney
On “Salman Toor: How Will I Know,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
March 2021
Exhibition note
On “Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
March 2021
Gallery chronicle
On “Albers and Morandi: Never Finished” at David Zwirner, “Victor Pesce: Still Life” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, “Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings” & “Wolf Kahn: The Last Decade 2010–2020” at Miles McEnery Gallery, “Jill Nathanson: Light Phrase” at Berry Campbell, “Jane Freilicher: Parts of a World” at Kasmin Gallery, “Deborah Brown: Things As They Are” at Anna Zorina Gallery, “Tworkov: Towards Nirvana / Works from the 70s” at Van Doren Waxter & “Sharon Butler: Morning in America” at Theodore:Art.
Music
March 2021
Livestream chronicle
On recent livestreams by Grigory Sokolov, Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczała, the Britten Sinfonia & Alexander Malofeev.
The media
March 2021
Reality show
On calls for a “Reality Czar.”
Notebook
March 2021
Richard L. Feigen, 1930–2021
On the art collector and gallery owner.
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