Terry Teachout is the rare critic who covers music, dance, books, and the visual arts. He is a columnist for the Washington Post, drama critic for the Wall Street Journal, and a music critic for Commentary. The Terry Teachout Reader, a collection of his essays, has just been published by Yale University Press. The Skeptic is Teachout’s biography of H.L. Mencken, and he is writing a biography of choreographer George Ballanchine. On the internet, Teachout writes a blog on the arts called “About Last Night” which he updates constantly.