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On the fiftieth anniversary of the Robert Moses biography.
On the trouble with democracy in America.
On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment.
Features
The profundity of evil
by Douglas Murray
On October 7 & Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.”
Emily Dickinson at the post office
by William Logan
On The Letters of Emily Dickinson_, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell._
Pevsner revised
by Simon Heffer
On the completed revisions to Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series.
“The Power Broker” in perspective
by Myron Magnet
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Robert Moses biography.
Statistical questions about the Iowa poll
by James Piereson
On the poll’s sixteen-point mistake.
The Critic’s Notebook
by the Editors
On The Owl and the Nightingale_, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Louis Langrée, Rosario Candela, the Isaac Bell House & more from the world of culture._
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Reconsiderations
A lion in Zion
by James Panero
On “All About Herzl: The Exhibition” at the Temple Emanu-El Bernard Museum of Judaica, New York.
Theater
Misshapen identities
by Kyle Smith
On McNeal_,_ The Roommate & Yellow Face_._
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Art
Shapeshifting Stella
by Karen Wilkin
On “Homage to Frank Stella” at Mnuchin Gallery, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at the New York Philharmonic & the Metropolitan Opera.
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Fiction chronicle
The corpse was dead & other stories
by Andrew Stuttaford
On fiction by Johan Harstad, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Caroline Blackwood & Michel Houellebecq.
Books
The sun also sets
by Paul Dean
On a new Library of America volume of Ernest Hemingway’s writings.
Saxon semi-successes
by Jeremy Black
On Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning.
Strong convictions
by Anthony Daniels
On Behind Bars: Letters from History’s Most Famous Prisoners_, edited by James Drake & Edward Smyth._
Merci pour Magna Carta
by Sean McGlynn
On Arise, England by Caroline Burt & Richard Partington & House of Lilies by Justine Firnhaber-Baker.
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