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by Theodore Dalrymple
On H. G. Wells’s clairvoyance.
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by John Simon
On Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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Why do I exist?
by Dan Brown
A new poem.
Olives
by A. E. Stallings
A new poem.
Accident waiting to happen
by A. E. Stallings
A new poem.
First giver
by David Mason
A new poem.
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Art imitates war
by Austin Bay
A letter from Baghdad.
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Dance
One is the loneliest number
by Laura Jacobs
On the New York City Ballet.
Theater
Compare & contrast
by Mark Steyn
On The Contrast, The Importance of Being Earnest, Stuff Happens, and The Drowsy Chaperone.
Art
Springtime in D.C.
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Renoir Returns” at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. and “Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection,” at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On “Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love & Exploration in Renaissance Venice“ at the Frick Collection.
Exhibition note
by Peter Pettus
On “The Art of Betty Woodman” at the Met.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On French Book Art/Livres d’Artistes at the New York Public Library; Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfield Gallery; James Castle/Walker Evans at Knoedler & Company; Guy Pène du Bois at James Graham & Sons; Arthur Dove at Alexandre Gallery & Willem de Kooning at L&M Arts.
Architecture
Renzo Piano & the Morgan Library
by Michael J. Lewis
On a splendid building marred by a less-than-splendid addition.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
A season-in-review.
Concert note
by Ben Finane
On Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall.
The media
Cheap laughs
by James Bowman
Manufactured reality, courtesy of the media.
Verse chronicle
Victoria’s secret
by William Logan
On District and Circle by Seamus Heaney; Averno by Louise Glück; Landing Light by Don Paterson; Dear Ghosts, by Tess Gallagher; Decreation by Anne Carson; and Without Title by Geoffrey Hill
Books
Haphazard spirits
by Ben Downing
On The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross
The hamburger cell
by Stefan Beck
On Terrorist by John Updike.
What fall?
by John Russell
On Art Czar: The Rise & Fall of Clement Greenberg by Alice Goldfarb Marquis
Of two minds
by Paul Dean
On Arthur Hugh Clough: A Poet’s Life by Anthony Kenny
Irish-American dreams
by Richard Tillinghast
On There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History by Thomas Flanagan.
The claims of realism
by Paul Gross
On Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart
C’est moi!
by Jeffrey Meyers
On Artists’ Self-Portraits by Omar Calabrese, translated by Marguerite Shore.
Shorter notice
by Stefan Beck
On The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Books You’ll Never Read by Stuart Kelly
Shorter notice
by Nick Desai
On The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later edited by Jason Shinder.
Shorter notice
by James Panero
On Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History by Stephen Christopher Quinn
Notes & Comments
No good deed . . .
by the Editors
On President Silber of Boston University.
History lessons?
by the Editors
On a new European textbook.
Moving passages
by the Editors
On Laura Jacobs’s newest book.
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by the Editors
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