These Kids at The New Yorker Have No Sense of History

It's not so much that the folks running the "Briefly Noted" section reviewed Robert Gottlieb's "brief but energetic" biography of George Balanchine but didn't even mention Terry Teachout's concurrently published book on the same subject. That is surprising, but since my objectivity about Teachout is somewhat constricted by acquaintance, I can't really speak to that. No, what really shocks is that nowhere in the paragraph devoted to the book does the anonymous reviewer acknowledge Gottlieb's five-year tenure as the magazine's editor.