Katyn: the long cover-up
by Dariusz Tolczyk
Are we finally getting the facts straight about the Soviet massacre?
Are we finally getting the facts straight about the Soviet massacre?
On the Swift-Johnson dialectic.
On Balanchine’s work with the impresario & the lack of craftsmanship on the stage today.
Questioning the wisdom of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume 1: Britain and Ireland 1880–1955, edited by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker.
On The Privileges by Jonathan Dee, Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett, The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris & The Ask by Sam Lipsyte.
On T. S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party at The Actors’ Theater Company, Horton Foote’s Story of a Childhood at the Signature Theater Company & Margaret Edson’s Wit.
On “The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry” & “The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & “Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves” at the Morgan Library Musuem, New York.
On “Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
On “Joe Zucker” at Mary Boone Gallery; “Bruce Gagnier: Incarnate” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “Shirley Jaffe: Selected Paintings, 1969–2009” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery; “Lois Dodd: Second Street Paintings” at Alexandre Gallery & “Deborah Brown: The Bushwick Paintings” at Storefront, Brooklyn.
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Jay Nordlinger on the Borodin Quartet at Alice Tully Hall, Thomas Adès & Michael Tilsen Thomas with the San Fransisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Alice Coote at Zankel Hall, Antonio Pappano with the New York Philharmonic & La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera.
On scandalmongering & its effects.
On the true legacy of the Brown family to the university in Providence named for them.
Notes & Comments
No surprises at the U.N.
by The Editors
On the latest bureaucratic boondoggling.
Tolerating intolerance
by The Editors
On the limits of cross-cultural respect.