The Great Americal Rascal” Dorothea Israel Wolfson, Claremont Review of Books. In an essay for the Claremont Review of Books ...
None dare say “battle of the bands.” Apologies: I just did. Three weeks ago, the New York Philharmonic, under Gustavo Dudamel, played Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in David Geffen Hall. Last night, the ...
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Jane Coombs on New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala.
Michael Gorra’s The Storytellers: Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction is among the most beautiful—and wonderful—things that have ever happened to this reader. It’s the work of ...
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On Latin, Johannes Brahms, medieval medicine, folk art, shingle-style buildings & more from the world of culture. Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity, 1835–40, Oil on ...
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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Insight into the case is provided by Carson Holloway, a professor of political science at the University of ...