Raymond Aron & the power of ideas
by Roger Kimball
Occasioned by the reissue of Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals.
Occasioned by the reissue of Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals.
Reflections on Gaudy Night, the philosophical novel, and old-school feminism.
Upon the publication of Frantz Fanon: A Biography, by David Macey.
On “Van Gogh’s ‘Postman’: the portraits of Joseph Roulin,” at the Musuem of Modern Art, New York & “Vincent Van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard,” at the Saint Louis Museum of Art.
Authoritarian government, media coverage & the new South Africa.
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On the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of Sondheim’s Follies.
On “Modern Art and America: Alfred Steiglitz and His New York Galleries,” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Daniel Kunitz on “Out of the Fifties -” Into the Sixties: 6 Figurative Expressionists” at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
On “Graham Nickson: Recent Paintings,” at the Salander O’Reilly Galleries.
On the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
On Handel’s Acis and Galatea, at the New York City Opera; the Met Chamber Ensemble, at Weill Recital Hall; Murray Perahia conducting and playing with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, at Avery Fisher Hall; Christoph Eschenbach conducting the New York Philharmonic, at Avery Fisher Hall & Ariadne auf Naxos, at the Metropolitan Opera.
On the coverage of the detention of an American spy plane by China.
A review of Border Crossing, by Pat Barker; Beloved Stranger, by Clare Boylan & Thanksgiving, by Michael Dibdin.
A review of Lying about Hitler: History, Holocaust & the David Irving Trial, by Richard J. Evans.
A review of To keep the ball rolling, by Anthony Powell.
A review of Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot, by Denis Donoghue.
Notes & Comments
“Breaking new ground”
by the Editors