November 2023
A little myopic
On the difference between art & entertainment.
Issues
Volume 42, Number 3 / November 2023
Notes & Comments
November 2023
Canceling the cancelers
On a recent victory for free discourse.
Features
November 2023
The burden of the humanities
On grasping human things in human terms.
November 2023
Popular song as populist revolt
On Oliver Anthony’s hit “Rich Men North of Richmond” & its detractors.
November 2023
Blanquette de Bard
On White People in Shakespeare edited by Arthur L. Little Jr. & The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper.
November 2023
The polymorphous Mr. Peretz
On The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center by Martin Peretz.
Poems
November 2023
Paddock edge
November 2023
A declaration
November 2023
Bead & fountain
Dance
November 2023
What ballet is
On dancing & diversity.
Theater
November 2023
Black comedy
On Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding & The Refuge Plays.
Art
November 2023
An inevitable rivalry
On “Manet/Degas” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Music
November 2023
New York chronicle
On West Side Story, Schwanengesang, Dead Man Walking & a performance by Yo-Yo Ma.
The media
November 2023
Therapeutic hatred
On criminalized politics & partisan contempt.
Fiction chronicle
November 2023
Closely examined lives
On My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket, One Woman Show by Christine Coulson, The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati & The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.
Notebook
November 2023
Subnormal schools
On the disintegration of French schooling.
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