The triumph of Thomas Sowell
by John Steele Gordon
On Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason L. Riley.
Features
Ideologists amok
by David Guaspari
On Kenneth Minogue’s political philosophy.
Full of insight, full of fun
by James F. Penrose
On Critique musicale, volume 10, by Hector Berlioz.
All is Orwell
by Gerald Frost
On George Orwell in Spain.
Reflections
The cooling of John le Carré
by Michael J. Lewis
On the British spy novelist.
The right angle
by James Panero
On Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.
Reconsiderations
Society vanishes
by Gerald J. Russello
On the novels of Louis Auchincloss.
The poet as memoirist
by Richard Tillinghast
On W. B. Yeats’s Autobiographies.
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Theater
The best book on theater
by Kyle Smith
On The Season, by William Goldman.
Art
Soutine & de Kooning at the Barnes
by Karen Wilkin
On “Soutine / de Kooning: Conversations in Paint,” at the Barnes Foundation.
The real Neel
by Mario Naves
On “Alice Neel: People Come First,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Andrew L. Shea
On “Julie Mehretu,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Music
Livestream chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent livestreams by the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Bell, Richard Goode, Arlen Hlusko & Paul Jacobs.
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The media
Sanity clause
by James Bowman
On the partisan rhetoric of “insanity.”
Verse chronicle
History lessons
by William Logan
A review of “The Historians,” by Eavan Boland, “American Melancholy,” by Joyce Carol Oates, “Now We’re Getting Somewhere,” by Kim Addonizio, “The Caiplie Caves,” by Karen Solie, “Beethoven Variations,” by Ruth Padel & “The Hill We Climb,” by Amanda Gorman.
Books
Notebook
On the hero trail
by Timothy Jacobson
On Robert Penn Warren & Dixon Wecter.
Denis Donoghue, 1928—2021
by Adam Kirsch
On the Irish literary critic.
Notes & Comments
Waking up from wokeness
by The Editors
On America’s “First Great Awokening.”
A note of thanks
by The Editors
Thank you for another year of loyal support.