What Dido did, Satan saw & O’Keeffe painted
by Mark Bauerlein
How the humanities can come out on top in the education debate
Features
Jonathan Swift: man of mystery
by Pat Rogers
Untangling the facts and fictions of Jonathan Swift’s life
A man of letters
by David Pryce-Jones
Orwell’s life in letters
A book of uncommon laughter
by Alexandra Mullen
Laughter and humor in Pride and Prejudice
Poems
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Letters from the World
Walking in Lenin’s footsteps
by Anthony Daniels
What would Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin have thought about modern Zurich?
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Fiction chronicle
Facing the music
by Stefan Beck
Reviews of Play Pretty Blues by Snowden Wright, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne, The Guts by Roddy Doyle, and Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker.
Theater
One thousand shades of gray
by Kevin D. Williamson
Reviews of Anthem, You Never Can Tell, and The Norwegians
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Art
Tell it with pride
by Karen Wilkin
Review of “Tell It With Pride: the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Shaw Memorial” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943–1963” at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese Art” at the British Museum, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York; “Meg Hitchcock: The Land of Bliss” at Studio10, Brooklyn; “Judith Linhares and Loren Munk with Rebecca Litt” at Valentine, Queens; “Meta Vista” at 16 Wilson, Brooklyn; and “Scale” at Life on Mars, Brooklyn
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
Yefim Bronfman and the New York Philharmonic, James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera, Riccardo Frizza, and more
The media
No ears to this request
by James Bowman
On Harry Reid, the shutdown, and “non-negotiating Republicans.”
Manners & Morals
In the arena
by Emily Esfahani Smith
The gentleman athlete has disappeared
Books
Reconsiderations
Ford & Waugh: renunciation & revenge
by Jeffrey Meyers
Ford Madox Ford’s surprising influence on the work of Evelyn Waugh
Notes & Comments
By the numbers
by the Editors
Analyzing the government shutdown by the numbers