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Israel’s Gauguin
Three days into the Israel–Iran Twelve-Day War in June of this year, an Iranian missile landed in…
“Wang with a bang,” by Jay Nordlinger
Over the years, Carnegie Hall has opened its season with great orchestras—the Berlin Philharmonic,…
Nadine knocks out
To say it immediately, Nadine Sierra proved herself a great singer at the Metropolitan Opera last…
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…
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