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The Critic’s Notebook | The New Criterion
Poetry: Three Metamorphoses: Novellas in Verse and Prose, by Amit Majmudar (Orison Books): “ach…
Capital notes
President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Profiles in Power”Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books…
Caprices & culture
Tchaikovsky is known for symphonies, ballets, concertos, and operas—that ought to be enough. He is…
She’s back
Spasimi d’ira, spasimi d’amore,” exults Baron Scarpia, Rome’s villainous police chief, as he…
The Critic’s Notebook | The New Criterion
Nonfiction: E. T. A. Hoffman, by Ritchie Robertson (Reaktion Books): Poke about in…
Greuze revisited
The Petit Palais, one of Paris’s most agreeable museums and with a permanent collection open to the…
“Free lies,” by James Bowman
Jimmy Kimmel is back, not only unrepentant but glorying in his new role as the people’s champion of…
“The first modern painter,” by John Chaves
More than many artists, Jean-François Millet (1814–75) has had his reputation made by others.…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Is a Vermeer self-portrait hiding behind his ‘sleeping maid’ at the…
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