June 2021
Waking up from wokeness
On America’s “First Great Awokening.”
On America’s “First Great Awokening.”
Thank you for another year of loyal support.
On Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason L. Riley.
On Kenneth Minogue’s political philosophy.
On Critique musicale, volume 10, by Hector Berlioz.
On George Orwell in Spain.
On the British spy novelist.
On Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler.
On the novels of Louis Auchincloss.
On W. B. Yeats’s Autobiographies.
On The Season, by William Goldman.
On “Soutine / de Kooning: Conversations in Paint,” at the Barnes Foundation.
On “Alice Neel: People Come First,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On “Julie Mehretu,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
On recent livestreams by the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Bell, Richard Goode, Arlen Hlusko & Paul Jacobs.
On the partisan rhetoric of “insanity.”
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.
On Robert Penn Warren & Dixon Wecter.
On the Irish literary critic.
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