Web Essays
Rage Against the Machine
If the American symphony orchestra is to survive, it must rewired and reengineered
by Douglas McLennan | Thursday, October 13, 2022
The Mule on the Stairs
Remembering the school in the midcentury South where “We Shall Overcome” was born
by Richard Tillinghast | Thursday, October 06, 2022
Bad Jew
Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday, September 22, 2022
The Changing of the Guard
This year’s US Open showed the world that tennis’s next generation is here
by Eric Wills | Thursday, September 15, 2022
The Allure of the Enigmatic
“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up
by David Lehman | Thursday, August 25, 2022
The Affair Rekindled
Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 11, 2022
The Disappearing Modernists
Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century?
by Mark N. Grant | Thursday, August 04, 2022
Our Remedy
Quack Covid cures and New Age elixirs are just a 21st-century spin on 19th-century patent medicines
by Colin Dickey | Thursday, July 07, 2022
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