How the great truth dawned
by Gary Saul Morson
On the Soviet virtue of cruelty.
Features
The country house today
by Clive Aslet
On architectural trends in the English countryside.
Nuclear holiday
by Nicola Shulman
On comedy in the shadow of the Chernobyl tragedy.
Picking up with Kipling
by Jesse Hecht
On The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories: Uncollected Prose Fictions, by Rudyard Kipling.
Poems
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Letters from the World
Decline & fall in a Welsh town
by Anthony Daniels
Fortune and misfortune on the waterfront.
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Reflections
Simon buys for less
by Marco Grassi
On Norton Simon’s legacy in the art world.
Theater
The problem with “Mockingbird”
by Kyle Smith
On To Kill a Mockingbird at the Shubert Theater.
Art
Renoir at the Clark
by Karen Wilkin
On “Renoir: The Body, The Senses” at the Clark Institute.
Verrocchio: the master’s master
by James Hankins
On “Verrocchio: Master of Leonardo” at the Firenze Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Herbert Ferber: Form into Space” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On “Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Venice’s last judgment
by James Panero
On the beginning and end of the Most Serene Republic.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On offerings from the Mostly Mozart Festival: The Magic Flute, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, a piano recital, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
The media
Revolutionism redux
by James Bowman
On the perils of the modern revolutionary mindset.
Books
Notebook
Norman Stone, 1941–2019
by Jeremy Black
On the life and works of the European historian.
Notes & Comments
Experiments against reality
by the Editors
On the passage of time and totalitarian callousness.
Some family news
by the Editors
Welcoming a familiar face to a new post.