Beginning today, June 23, 2008, Encounter Books will no longer send its books to The New York Times for review. Of course, the editors at the Times are welcome to trot down to their local book emporium or visit Amazon.com to purchase our books, but we won’t be sending gratis advance copies to them any longer.
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Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball shows in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of master works than be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens’s [...]

Even before the events of 9/11, it had become clear that the jagged velocity of twentieth-century life had catapulted the United States to a rare, perhaps unprecedented, preeminence on the world stage. How that preeminence would be handled–to what extent it would even be acknowledged–was rarely addressed. But then came the terrorists’ attacks and in [...]