Man is wolf to wolf
by John Derbyshire
On American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, edited by Bill McKibben with a foreword by Al Gore.
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Revisionism at the Met
by the Editors
On the new Galleries for Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
At the forest’s edge
by Anthony Daniels
On José Ortega y Gasset and Sigmund Freud.
Geoffrey Hill’s civil tongue
by David Yezzi
On Geoffrey Hill’s A Treatise of Civil Power.
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Poems
The consolations
by Adam Kirsch
Three new poems after Boethius.
Reconsiderations
Mallarmé’s wanderings
by John Simon
On Barbara Johnson’s translation of Divagations by Stéphane Mallarmé.
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Theater
Trial & error
by Brooke Allen
On Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, The Lifeblood at the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, New Jerusalem at the Classic Stage Company, and Two Thousand Years at the New Group.
Art
Late Titian in Vienna
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting” at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Music
On recordings
by Jay Nordlinger
On Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven Sonatas Op. 2, Janine Jansen’s Bach: Inventions & Partita, and Matt Heimovitz’s After Reading Shakespeare.
The media
Rock-star status
by James Bowman
On politics and celebrity.
Books
Fixin’ Nixon
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black.
Durable cloth
by Richard Tillinghast
On Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice.
Yossarian section
by Alec Solomita
Bitter disillusionment
by Paul Hollander
On The Kravchenko Case: One Man’s War on Stalin, by Gary Kern.
A life of allegory
by Joseph Tartakovsky
Carved in stone
by Barry Strauss
On Monuments: America’s History in Art and Memory by Judith Dupré.
More mass than drive
by Peter Schwendener
On Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy by Kevin Bazzana.
A partisan view
by Mark Bauerlein
On Full Circle: A Memoir, by Edith Kurzweil.
Brave new Huxley
by Ellie Thermansen
Notebook
Shed no tears
by Roger Sandall
On Professor Charles Taylor and the Crow Indians of the Yellowstone River Valley.
Notes & Comments
“Constructive accommodation”?
by the Editors
On Rowan Williams and Sharia bonds.
Euphemism alert
by the Editors
On the well-chosen use of the word “youths” by Reuters.