Names, pronouns & the law
by Joshua T. Katz
On linguistics & legality.
Features
Turning, wandering, waltzing
by Laura Jacobs
On George Balanchine’s Vienna Waltzes.
Victor Klemperer: a Jewish life in the Third Reich
by Bruce Bawer
On the German philologist’s diaries.
David Milch & the strategies of indirection in fiction
by William Logan
On Milch’s writing seminar at Yale.
Poems
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Reflections
A true part of the story
by Christopher Bedford
On the Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Reconsiderations
Making Da Ponte
by John Steele Gordon
On the extraordinary life of an extraordinary librettist.
Theater
Turn back the clock
by Kyle Smith
On Merrily We Roll Along, Funny Girl & A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical.
Art
French leaves
by Karen Wilkin
On “Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France” at the Clark Art Institute.
Up the riverside
by James Panero
On New York’s Riverside Drive & Park.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Making Past Present: Cy Twombly” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
The media
Scandalum scandalorum
by James Bowman
On the media’s latest hobbyhorse.
Books
Paradise lost
by Peter W. Wood
A review of Peace and Friendship by Stephen Aron & Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen.
Infinite India
by Amit Majmudar
Wish upon a star
by Jonathan Lopez
Ecce Huxleys
by James Franklin
Words from his tomb
by David Platzer
A review of Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand.
Notes & Comments
Leftist autophagy, Telluride edition
by The Editors
On the convolutions of anti-racism.