Gray mists & ancient stones
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.
Features
Forests of Ardens
by Paul Dean
On the Arden Shakespeare series.
Hypocrite hector
by Anthony Daniels
A review of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo & How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Knights & their ladies fair
by Bruce Bawer
On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
Poems
Reflections
Hildebrand’s aesthetics of the universal
by Gerald J. Russello
On the philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand.
True lies
by Andrew Stuttaford
On the Italian turncoat and fabulist Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.
Theater
Chekhov’s 2020 vision
by Kyle Smith
On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
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Art
COVID chronicle
by Karen Wilkin
On artists in lockdown.
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Music
Livestream chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
A review of recent livestreams from the Orchestra of St Luke’s, The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Les Arts Florissants & The Boulanger Initiative.
The media
Mostly peaceful
by James Bowman
On the media’s attempt to explain away mob violence.
Books
Notebook
A classical illness
by James Panero
On the pathology of recent protests.
Richard Gilder, 1932—2020
by Myron Magnet
On the life of one of New York City’s great philanthropists.
Notes & Comments
The mob comes for the art world
by The Editors
On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We welcome Myron Magnet
by The Editors
Introducing our second annual Visiting Critic.