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November 2012Volume 31, Number 3Departments Poems "To be with a koan" by Dick Allen Smokehouse by Jeffrey Harrison To Pluto, who happens to be fairly good-looking by J. Allyn Rosser Fiction Chronicle Go walkabout by Stefan Beck Coverage of Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Lower River by Paul Theroux, and Voss by Patrick White. Theater Claustrophobia & catastrophe by Kevin D. Williamson On Through the Yellow Hour, Chaplin, and The Volcano. Art Mark Rothko: the decisive decade by Karen Wilkin On “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950,” which opened at the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, on September 14, 2012 and remains on view through January 6, 2013. Exhibition note by Leann Davis Alspaugh On "Paul Klee—Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art," which opened at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College on September 1 and remains on view until December 9, 2012. Exhibition note by Christie Davies On "Art of Change: New Directions from China," which opened at the Hayward Gallery, London on September 7 and remains on view until December 8, 2012, and "Everything Was Moving: Photography from the '60s and '70s," which opened at the Barbican Art Gallery, London September 13, 2012 and remains on view until January 13, 2013. Exhibition note by Mario Naves On "Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R. Lippard & the Emergence of Conceptual Art," which opened at the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth R. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 14, 2012 and remains on view until February 3, 2013. Gallery chronicle by James Panero On "To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts" at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery. Music New York chronicle by Jay Nordlinger On Carmen, Trovatore, Othello, and recent performances by Daniil Trifonov, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and more. The Media Get real by James Bowman On the nature of "reality" in the political arena. Notebook The Widmer uncertainty principle by Tess Lewis On Urs Widmer and a trio of his novels. Eugene D. Genovese, 1930–2012 by Robert L. Paquette On the life of Eugene Dominick Genovese, antebellum historian who passed away in September. November 2012Volume 31, Number 3Books He was the change on I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism by Charles R. Kesler reviewed by James Piereson Baudelaire was better on La La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso,Alastair McEwen reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers Keep for end on Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett reviewed by Paul Dean Hook-up feminism on Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad by Nathan Harden,Christopher Buckley reviewed by Emily Esfahani Smith Liberalism's "Kultursmog" on The Death of Liberalism by R. Tyrrell Jr. reviewed by Andrew Roberts The radical passion on Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion by David Horowitz reviewed by Mark Bauerlein The everyday surreal on Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography by J. G. Ballard reviewed by Brian P. Kelly Bookstore
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"Beckett’s poems trace in miniature his lifelong inability, despite his best efforts, to keep silent." t.co/KKnRm6RR Wed, 14 Nov 2012 Hey Bostonians, there's less than a month left to see Paul Klee at @BostonCollege's McMullen Museum of Art: t.co/a27j3sYR Tue, 13 Nov 2012 Mondays can be stressful, so take a minute to relax with some new poetry by Dick Allen: t.co/9hMOJpxB Mon, 12 Nov 2012 A look back at John Silber, former President of Boston University, who died in September: t.co/zWwBIUpi @BU_tweets @YourCampusBU Fri, 09 Nov 2012 Looking for your daily dose of literature? Enjoy this great profile of Anton Chekhov by Gary Saul Morson: t.co/Ec9tZPcc Fri, 09 Nov 2012 For more follow @newcriterion Webcasts
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