Among the missing, among the dead: black poetry in America
by William Logan
On black poetry since the Civil War.
Features
Words, words, words
by Amit Majmudar
On the Bard’s four-hundred-year legacy.
The unspeakable spoken
by Peter Filkins
On the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann.
The old & the new
by Katie Hartsock
On revisionary poetry.
The answer to Lord Chandos
by Pascal Quignard
An excerpt from the new work.
Poems
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Letter from South Africa
The once beloved country
by Alexander Chula
On South Africa thirty years after the end of apartheid.
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Reconsiderations
Brilliant Barnard
by John Steele Gordon
On the astronomer E. E. Barnard.
Theater
Behind the veil
by Kyle Smith
On Doubt: A Parable, Corruption & The Seven Year Disappear.
Art
Sculpting in color
by Karen Wilkin
On “No One Thing: David Smith, Late Sculptures” at Hauser & Wirth, New York, & “Frank Stella: Recent Sculpture” at Jeffrey Deitch, New York.
Cruz control
by Julia Friedman
On Amada Cruz’s cancellation of “Three American Painters: Then and Now.”
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, Park Avenue Armory & Zankel Hall.
The media
Where’s the outrage?
by James Bowman
On America’s desensitization to outrage.
Books
Deeper listening
by Matthew Gurewitsch
A review of Time’s Echo by Jeremy Eichler.
Making mirth
by David Guaspari
A review of Comedy Book by Jesse David Fox.
Interwar order
by Jeremy Black
A review of Sing As We Go by Simon Heffer.
Under the Tuscan spell
by Benjamin Riley
A review of A Villa in Tuscany by Susanna Johnston.
Notebook
Criminality & celebrity
by Anthony Daniels
On the depredations of Louis Althusser.
Notes & Comments
An invented grievance
by The Editors
On art vandals & historical hogwash.