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Comment: Letter From the Netherlands

Wilkin relates his experiences in the Netherlands, with a group of art critics, to preview the exhition "Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes from the Golden Age." The show will be at the National Gallery in Washington until early May, but a smaller version is at the Mauritshuis, The Hague. It examines a painting genre that developed in the wake of the Netherlands' hard-won independence from Spanish rule, as the small country grew increasingly prosperous. He visited The Hague, Delft, Haarlem, Hoo...

Shrewd Old Abe

Allen talks about books on US Pres Abraham Lincoln. The US' sixteenth president has been rated by a group of prominent historians as the greatest American president. His "greatness" is widely accepted, even by those who know little about the man. And most people know little about him, despite hundreds of books on the subject that have been written over the last century and a half.

Blood Sugar

A poem is presented.

Pledge

A poem is presented.

After Reading a Very Good Poem

A poem is presented.

She

A poem is presented.

Hazlitt Redivivus

Pritchard discusses how Duncan Wu, Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington DC, depicted William Hazlitt in his biography William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. In his short life of 51 years, Hazlitt was the Complete Journalist: essays, familiar and political, lectures on William Shakespeare, Elizabethan dramatists, English comic writers, and poets from Chaucer to the 19th century, theater reviews, even philosophical treatise. As has been suggested by more than one critic, ...

Chinese Writing

A poem is presented.

A Zen Sonnet

A poem is presented.

The Last Ditch

A poem is presented.

Speech of the Pacific

A poem is presented.

The Museum of Desires

A poem is presented.

Robert Oppenheimer After the War

A poem is presented.

G.O.D.

A short story is presented.

A Greek Cup at the Met

Understanding Mark Rothko

A poem is presented.

Reclamation Ground

A poem is presented.

The Birds of Donegal

A poem is presented.

Four Poems About the City

A poem is presented.

Eternal Places

A poem is presented.

Pigs (See Swine)

A poem is presented.

October Trees

A poem is presented.

Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942

A poem is presented.

The Preacher On Daniel and Ezekiel

A poem is presented.

Bergman's Unseen Masterpiece

Flower considers Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander still a virtually unseen masterpiece. He says all the significant differences between the two versions of the film, the theatrical and the television release, do change the fundamental story. Here, he explores the story of the movie.

Busby Berkeley and the Projected Stage

Busby Berkeley is one of the filmmakers of his time who pioneers dance movies. Siegel discusses some of the movies that show Berkeley's projected dance dreams.

Playing Chekhov

Hornby discusses why Anton Chekhov's The Seagull is the ultimate challenge for the actor in modern drama. Staging this remarkable play requires not just talent and experience, but also time, care, and thought. The first staging of this major play was done by the best company in St. Petersburg, headed by an outstanding actress, was a flop not because the actors were no good but because they failed to appreciate the problems created by the playwright's radical innovations. Last fall, a highligh...

Dudamel, Domingo, Villazón and the New Classical Music

Neher features Gustavo Dumadel, Rolando Villazon, and Placido Domingo, three Latin Americans artists representing three generations share a similar charisma--an intensity made up of intelligence, dedication, craft, passion, and sheer joy in performing the new age of classical music. Among others, conductor Dumadel's love of music-making somehow taps into the deep love of music that hooked music lover in the first place as children. What's perhaps even more astounding is that in Aug 2007 Youtu...

Poets and Their Letters

Bawer reviews WORDS IN AIR: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, LETTERS OF TED HUGHES edited by Christopher Reid, SELECTED LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG AND GARY SNYDER edited by Bill Morgan, and LETTERS OF ALLEN GINSBERG edited by Bill Morgan.

'Given the Gift of Time'

Gwynn reviews OPAL SUNSET: Selected Poems 1958-2008 by Clive James, BEING THE BAD GUY by John Whitworth, TWO MEN FIGHTING WITH A KNIFE by John Poch, PRESENT VANISHING by Dick Allen, and DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust.