September 2022
Simmering summer
Some news from the summer break.
Issues
Volume 41, Number 1 / September 2022
Notes & Comments
September 2022
James F. Penrose, 1952–2022
On the late contributor and friend of the magazine.
Features
September 2022
The Old South shall rise again
On the economic system of Silicon Valley.
September 2022
Facing the music
On the decline of the WASP establishment.
September 2022
The peril of history
On the present state of the discipline.
September 2022
The life & afterlife of “Festus”
On Philip James Bailey’s masterpiece.
Poems
September 2022
Then & now
Reflections
September 2022
Doing the country like Cézanne
On the influence of Paul Cézanne on Ernest Hemingway.
Reconsiderations
September 2022
Arise, Sir Arnold?
On the faceoff between Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett.
Theater
September 2022
Many unhappy returns
On Into the Woods, Oresteia, and The Kite Runner.
Art
September 2022
Philip Guston finally
On “Philip Guston Now” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
September 2022
Why the Barnes Foundation matters
On the artistic value of the Philadelphia institution.
September 2022
The way of the masks
On the newly redone Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History.
Music
September 2022
On the record
On the preservation of classical music.
The media
September 2022
A lesson in wrongology
On the media’s humility, or lack thereof.
Notebook
September 2022
Four hundred years of Molière
On the career of the French playwright.
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