September 2021
Meditations at the crossroads
On The New Criterion’s fortieth anniversary.
Issues
Volume 40, Number 1 / September 2021
Notes & Comments
Features
Western civilization at the crossroads: I
September 2021
Civilization & tradition
On the fruits of Western culture.
September 2021
Classical patricide
On the state of the classics in higher education.
September 2021
9/11 twenty years later
On jihadism and the United States.
September 2021
Turgenev’s liberal sensibility
On Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
September 2021
What America is
On the founding principles of the United States.
September 2021
The invented exile of Edward Said
On the life and writings of the post-colonial theorist.
September 2021
Malicious Marcuse
On the “tolerance” of Herbert Marcuse.
September 2021
Baudelaire’s Modernism
On the poet of Les Fleurs du mal.
September 2021
Doomed to succeed
On Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson.
September 2021
Culture as counterculture
On changes in the cultural climate.
Poems
September 2021
Untitled, to Ausonius (a translation)
September 2021
The Assumption of the Virgin
September 2021
Paylode
Reflections
September 2021
New worlds
On a discovery of fifteenth-century Venetian glass beads in Alaska.
Theater
September 2021
Ladies’ nights
On Enemy of the People at the Park Avenue Armory; Get On Your Knees at the Cherry Lane Theatre; and Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings) at the Cell.
Art
September 2021
Cézanne’s drawings at MOMA
On “Cézanne Drawing” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
September 2021
Face-to-face with the Medici
On “The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
September 2021
Sculptor in two dimensions
On Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton.
September 2021
Exhibition note
On “Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities” at The Morgan Library, New York.
Music
September 2021
New York chronicle
On a livestream performance by the New York Philharmonic; an organ concert by Raymond Nagem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a concert of piano music by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the National Youth Orchestra; and The Barber of Seville with Teatro Nuovo.
The media
September 2021
Real words, real meanings
On the changing meanings of common words.
Notebook
September 2021
Postmemories of Salonica
On the Cohen family of Salonica.
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