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Editor's note

The Editors are pleased to announce that Ashley Anna McHugh is the winner of the tenth annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. Ms. McHugh will receive $3,000 and her book Into These Knots will be published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago.

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March 2010

Volume 28, Number 7

Notes & comments

The Ayn Rand follies

On self-love, good & bad.

Features

A new kind of liberalism: Tocqueville's "Recollections"

by Harvey Mansfield

On the defense of politics through the disparagement of philosophy.

The diligent hand of Florence

by Marco Grassi

On Bronzino's draftsmanship.

Christopher Dawson & the coming conflict

by Gerald J. Russello

On the role of religion in culture.

The dramatic element

by David Yezzi

On the social muse.

March 2010

Volume 28, Number 7

Departments

Poems


Reconsiderations

Knight of the white elephant

by Anthony Daniels

On the life & times of the great McGonagall.


Theater

Melancholy, long, withdrawing

by Kevin D. Williamson

On The Bridge Project’s As You Like It & The Tempest, Sexual Healing by Jonathan Leaf, Phantom Killer by Jan Buttram & David Greenspan’s Plays & The Myopia.


Art

Matisse & Rodin in Paris

by Karen Wilkin

On “Matisse and Rodin” at the Musée Rodin, Paris.

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

On "Tino Sehgal" at the Solomon R. Guggeinheim Museum, New York.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On "Seventy Years Grandma Moses" at Galerie St. Etienne, New York & “Carolanna Parlato: Vortical” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York.


Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, Radu Lupu & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Bernarda Fink at Alice Tully Hall, Simon Boccanegra and Stiffelio at the Metropolitan Opera & the Daedalus Quartet at the Chamber Society Music of Lincoln Center.


The Media

One or the other

by James Bowman

On creeping Manichaeism in the public sphere.


Notebook


Letters

March 2010

Volume 28, Number 7

Books

Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union

King & the commissars

on Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union

by David King

reviewed by Andrew Stuttaford

Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Vol. 3)

Digression as progress

on Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Vol. 3)

by Javier Marías,Margaret Jull Costa

reviewed by Tess Lewis

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Anti-Semitic symbiosis

on Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

by Jeffrey Herf

reviewed by Sol Stern

Memoir: A History

Bad confessions

on Memoir: A History

by Ben Yagoda

reviewed by Stefan Beck

Book title

The tenth muse

on Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics)

by Sappho,Aaron Poochigian,Carol Ann Duffy

reviewed by Rachel Hadas

Book title

Free an' easy

on The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

by Johnny Mercer

reviewed by Michael Anderson

Book title

In cold blood

on The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

by Joan Schenkar

reviewed by Kelly Jane Torrance

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