Never such innocence again
by Andrew Stuttaford
The Boy’s Own Paper remembered.
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The sovereign ghost of Wallace Stevens
by William Logan
On the poet’s place in the American Pantheon & the new Selected Poems, edited by John N. Serio.
Sentimental journeys
by Pat Rogers
On The Letters of Laurence Sterne, edited by Melvyn New and Peter de Voogd.
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Blossom time at ABT
by Laura Jacobs
On the American Ballet Theater, the New York City Ballet & Veronika Part.
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Theater
Luck of the Irish
by Kevin D. Williamson
On After Luke & When I Was God at the Irish Repertory Theater, New York, A Lifetime of Burning at e59e, New York & The Bacchae in Central Park.
Art
Augustus Saint-Gaudens & the American monument
by Eric Gibson
On “Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
Vermeer & Monet at the Met & MoMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Vermeer’s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & “Monet’s Water Lilies” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Marco Grassi
On “Time Will Tell: Ethics & Choices in Conservation” at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “George Grosz: The Years in America: 1933–1958” at David Nolan Gallery; “Mel Kendrick: Markers” in Madison Square Park; “Conrad Marca-Relli: The New York Years 1945–1967” at Knoedler & Company; “Leon Polk Smith” at Washburn Gallery; “Carole Feuerman: Swimmers, Bathers & Nudes”at Jim Kempner Fine Art & “Color-Time-Space” at Lohin Geduld and Janet Kurnatowski Galleries.
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Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the 2009 Salzburg Festival.
The media
Our diminished debate
by James Bowman
On loss of manners in civil affairs.
Books
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Notes & Comments
Cushing Academy, RIP
by The Editors
Harvard’s latest PC travesty
by The Editors
Welcome, National Affairs
by The Editors
Irving Kristol 1920—2009
by The Editors