Going under with the overclass
by James Panero
On troubling trends among the elite.
Features
Berryman at letters
by William Logan
On the correspondence of the twentieth-century American poet.
Poetry & digital personhood
by Carmine Starnino
On artificial intelligence and creativity.
The long poems of E. A. Robinson
by Daniel Mark Epstein
On the life and epic poetry of the American writer.
Louise Glück’s music
by A. E. Stallings
On the poetry of the 2020 Nobel Prize–winner.
Good morning, America
by Alex Wermer-Colan
Excerpted from a new translation of Cocteau’s Letter to the Americans.
Poems
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Reflections
Fielding as a moralist
by Jeremy Black
On the eighteenth-century English novelist.
Theater
Foreign accents
by Kyle Smith
On The Daughter-in-Law at City Center Stage II, Space Dogs at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, English at Linda Gross Theater.
Art
David the draftsman
by Karen Wilkin
On “Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Holbein’s humans
by Marco Grassi
On “Holbein: Capturing Character” at The Morgan Library, New York.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On “Milton Avery” at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center.
The media
Stumbling through the fog
by James Bowman
On the media coverage of Ukraine.
Notes & Comments
Hilton Kramer ten years on
by Roger Kimball
On the founding editor of The New Criterion.