The digital challenge, I: Loss & gain, or the fate of the book
by Anthony Daniels
The first entry in our series “The digital challenge.” What does the future hold for printed books?
Features
An old-fashioned picaro
by Pat Rogers
On The Adventures of Roderick Random and Tobias Smollet.
Mining the ash heap
by Alexandra Mullen
On Henry Mayhew’s magnum opus, London Labour and the London Poor.
Chekhov’s enlightenment
by Gary Saul Morson
On the life, evolution, and legacy of Anton Chekhov.
Poems
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Fiction chronicle
Go walkabout
by Stefan Beck
Coverage of Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Lower River by Paul Theroux, and Voss by Patrick White.
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Theater
Claustrophobia & catastrophe
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Through the Yellow Hour, Chaplin, and The Volcano.
Art
Mark Rothko: the decisive decade
by Karen Wilkin
On “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950,” which opened at the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, on September 14, 2012 and remains on view through January 6, 2013.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “Paul Klee—Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art,” which opened at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College on September 1 and remains on view until December 9, 2012.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Art of Change: New Directions from China,” which opened at the Hayward Gallery, London on September 7 and remains on view until December 8, 2012, and “Everything Was Moving: Photography from the ’60s and ’70s,” which opened at the Barbican Art Gallery, London September 13, 2012 and remains on view until January 13, 2013.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard & the Emergence of Conceptual Art,” which opened at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth R. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 14, 2012 and remains on view until February 3, 2013.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts” at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Carmen, Trovatore, Othello, and recent performances by Daniil Trifonov, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and more.
The media
Get real
by James Bowman
On the nature of “reality” in the political arena.
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Books
Notebook
The Widmer uncertainty principle
by Tess Lewis
On Urs Widmer and a trio of his novels.
Eugene D. Genovese, 1930—2012
by Robert L. Paquette
On the life of Eugene Dominick Genovese, antebellum historian who passed away in September.
Notes & Comments
John Silber, 1926—2012
by The Editors
Remembering John Silber, President and Chancellor of Boston University who turned a second-rate commuter school into a world-class research institution.