D’Souza goes native
by Scott W. Johnson
On Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11.
On Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11.
On Zachary Leader’s new biography of Kingsley Amis.
On recently published Proustiana.
On the letters of Martha Gellhorn.
On Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
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On Frank’s Home, The Fever, A Spanish Play, and Translations.
On “Matisse: Painter as Sculptor” at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.
On “Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-1946” at the International Center of Photography.
On “Picturing Artists (1950s-1960s): Photographs by Dan Budnik” at Knoedler & Company; “John Morra: Recent Paintings” at Hirschl & Adler Galleries; “Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction; Paintings and Drawings (1944-1959)” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery & “Al Pounders: Recent Work” at Allen Stone Gallery.
On the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Hindemith’s long-lost Piano Music with Orchestra, Op. 29, the New York String Orchestra’s performance of Joan Tower’s Made in America, Bernard Labadie conducting the New York Philharmonic, the abridged English version of Julie Taymor’s Magic Flute production at the Metropolitan Opera, Tan Dun’s The First Emperor, and the Cassatt String Quartet.
On the circus surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
On The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis.
On Gore Vidal’s Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006.
On Richard Ford’s The Lay of the Land
On Nick Cohen’s What’s Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way.
On Paul Cartledge’s Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World.
On Andrew Burstein’s The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving.
A letter from Christopher Hitchens.
A response from Anthony Daniels.
Notes & Comments
Nasty, brutish, but tolerant
by The Editors
On “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Meanwhile at the BBC
by The Editors
On Britain’s state-funded broadcaster, up to its usual tricks.
The politics of correction
by The Editors
On the interesting policies of The New York Times.
MOMA & money
by The Editors
On the enviable position of a museum director.