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The veteran New Yorker staff writer Janet Malcolm and I have a great deal in common. Why, then, did I dismiss her recently as “incurably ditzy”? For my money, Malcolm’s oeuvre too often represents a triumph of style over substance, and of the clutter of overwhelming research over simple clarity. view full article |
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Music
Why Stokowski left the Orchestra
Recalling Etta James and ‘At Last’
Suburbanites and the Orchestra
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Music Reviews
Blomstedt conducts Beethoven
Ticciati conducts Beethoven and Sibelius (2nd review)
Ticciati conducts Beethoven and Sibelius (1st review)
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Art
A better way to destroy Damien Hirst
‘Washington’s Crossing’ as it really was
Discovered: La Salle’s unsung art museum
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Art Reviews
‘The Romantic Impulse’ at Gross McCleaf
Denver’s new Clyfford Still Museum
Joan Mitchell and Matta in New York
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Theater
2011 highlights: Critic’s choice
Billington’s assault on absurdism
Vaclav Havel’s legacy (2nd commentary)
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Theater Reviews
‘Porgy and Bess’ on Broadway
‘Memphis’ and the real dawn of rock ’n’ roll
‘Ludwig Live’ at Kimmel’s Innovation Studio
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Opera
Julian Rodescu: A life in the arts
Black opera: Struggle and strategy
‘Don Giovanni,’ reconsidered
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Opera Reviews
Met’s ‘Enchanted Island’ in HD-Live
Handel’s ‘Rodelinda’ at the Met
La Scala’s ‘Don Giovanni’: second helping
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Dance
Critic’s choice: Dance highlights of 2011
A four-year-old’s ‘Nutcracker’ (2nd comment)
When choreographers talk (too much)
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Dance Reviews
Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ (1st review)
Compagnie Marie Chouinard at Annenberg
Kùlú Mèlé’s ‘Sacred Journeys’ at the Painted Bride
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Cross-Cultural
Newt’s open marriage, and mine
Gingrich: The wrong question
‘War Horse’: Animals as friends
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Cross-Cultural Reviews
Sylvia Nasar’s ‘Grand Pursuit’
Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ (2nd review)
‘Townie,’ by Andre Dubus III
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