The specter of Chinese civilization
by Angelo M. Codevilla
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
On Chinese and Western models of governance.
On the future of the United States.
On Elizabeth Bishop’s subway creature.
On Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End.
On the Wallander novels by Henning Mankell.
On Chicken & Biscuits at Circle in the Square, Sanctuary City at Lucille Lortel Theatre & Letters of Suresh at Second Stage Theater.
On A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years, 1933–1943 by John Richardson.
On the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor.
On “Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel” at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
On “Lois Dodd” at Alexandre Gallery, “Marin in the White Mountains” at Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, “John Ferren: From Paris to Springs” at Findlay Galleries, “Frederick J. Brown: The Sound of Color” at Berry Campbell & “Amy Lincoln” at Sperone Westwater.
On the Metropolitan Opera’s performances of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
On lies in the media.
On The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Hard Like Water, by Yan Lianke, Awake, by Harald Voetmann & A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray, by Dominique Barbéris.
On the politicization of archaeology.
Notes & Comments
Columbus Day
by The Editors
On recent hostility towards the fifteenth-century explorer.
Education apocalypse now
by The Editors
On the firing of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unpaid docents.
Fear
by The Editors
On the desire for freedom.