Beach reading with Max
by Max Watman
On four novels that offer more than raised gold lettering.
Features
The politics of oxymoron
by Roger Sandall
On the singularity of “civilization.”
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Sweeping out the cobwebs
by Patrick J. Smith
A review of A History of Russian Music, by Francis Maes.
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London journal
London journal
by John Gross
On the British journalists’ post-war campaign against Tony Blair.
Ill met at the MET
by John Simon
The Kirov opera comes to New York’s Lincoln Center.
Art
Suprematism at the New! Improved! Guggenheim
by Mario Naves
On Kazimir Malevich, post-Barney.
Reading Africa in Waugh
by James Panero
What Evelyn Waugh can tell us about contemporary Africa.
The media
“The Bush junta”
by James Bowman
On the Democratic party’s hatred of Bush and the case of “Nee-jhairian” uranium.