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Peter E. Gordon
In the autumn of 1931, the philosopher Martin Heidegger began to record his thoughts in small diaries that he called theschwarze Hefte, or “black notebooks.” They will cast a dark shadow over his legacy.
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Cathleen Schine
The rooms that hold the Museum of Natural History’s famous dioramas are vast and dimly lit. The dioramas themselves shine like stages in a darkened theater. It doesn’t feel like theater though.
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Jonathan Mirsky
Again we are watching heavily armed police trying to disperse peaceful democracy protesters. Already they have used teargas and pepper spray. And they are possibly awaiting orders to do more than that.
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Christopher Benfey
Why shouldn’t we, like the Romans, take our bearings from the flight of birds? Would our expectations differ significantly from those of the so-called experts?
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Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson
A series of local cease-fires that could, if properly implemented and enforced, provide a path toward stability in several regions of the country, even as conflict continues elsewhere.
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Martin Filler
How old is too old in opera? Few have lived up to the standard set by the Magda Olivero, who made her operatic debut in Turin at twenty-three and gave her last public performance in Milan at ninety-nine.
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Michael Greenberg
Peter Brook has directed at least fifty plays since Marat/Sade in 1965, and his latest,The Valley of Astonishment, is currently playing in Brooklyn. It immediately plunges you into the pool of his sensibility
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Orville Schell
When Jimmy Carter arrived back in Beijing this September to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of “normalized relations,” his first stop was the People’s University.
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