May 2023
The diversity masquerade
On the conformity behind the mask.
Issues
Volume 41, Number 9 / May 2023
Notes & Comments
Features
May 2023
Silicon Valley’s moral bankruptcy
On the pestilence in northern California.
May 2023
The novel truth
On the Russian literary tradition.
May 2023
Confessions of a China apologist
On Chinese communism & Confucianism.
May 2023
National lampooner
On James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire, by Timothy Clayton.
Poems
May 2023
Garden at odds
May 2023
Sole unquiet thing
May 2023
By degrees (ghazal)
Letter from the Golan
May 2023
Higher authority
On security in the Golan, Israeli politics & settler culture.
Reflections
May 2023
Wren’s harmonies
On the architectural legacy of Sir Christopher Wren.
Theater
May 2023
Renovations underway
On A Doll’s House, Parade & Bad Cinderella.
Art
May 2023
Outside the field
On “Kenneth Noland: Stripes/Plaids/Shapes,” “Helen Frankenthaler: Drawing within Nature, Paintings from the 1990s” & “Larry Poons: The Outerlands.”
May 2023
Exhibition note
On “Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi,” at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
May 2023
Exhibition note
On “Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch,” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Music
May 2023
New York chronicle
On recent performances at Weill Recital Hall, Zankel Hall & David Geffen Hall.
The media
May 2023
On some moral hazards
On the media’s claims to infallibility.
Fiction chronicle
May 2023
On maneuvers
A review of On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger, translated by Tess Lewis, Fulgentius by César Aira, translated by Chris Andrews, Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore & The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis.
Notebook
May 2023
Word of mouth
On reading & writing aloud.
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