Sep 20, 2017
A parliament of poets
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A review of Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture by Evan Kindley.
Topic: “Culture”
Art September 2017
Death of taste in Venice
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On the 2017 Venice Biennale and Damien Hirst’s “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable” at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
Aug 25, 2017
Shakespeare? in the park
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On The Public Theater’s recent production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Aug 22, 2017
The Critic’s Notebook
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On classical music streaming, Russian scheming & more from the world of culture.
Notebook February 2017
Kafka, tuberculosis & “Magic Mountain”
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On the mania shared between the Bohemian writer and the German novel.
Reconsiderations October 2015
Max Beerbohm’s humanity
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Reading Max Beerbohm reveals much about the times in which he lived.
Features March 2008
Man is wolf to wolf
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On American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, edited by Bill McKibben with a foreword by Al Gore.
Features January 2008
The conservative response to Islam
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On how the West should react to the growing strength of Islam.
Features October 2012
The Fifth problem: math & anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union
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A look at anti-Semitic university admissions in the USSR from the perspective of a leading mathematician.
Jun 26, 2017
The Critic’s Notebook
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A Degas plaster, Jefferson’s original Declaration & more from the world of culture