Who was Josephine Herbst?
by Hilton Kramer
On Josephine Herbst’s life.
Features
Ivy Litvinov: the commissar’s wife
by Samuel Lipman
On Ivy Litvinov’s life and works.
Watteau in Washington
by Jed Perl
On Watteau’s paintings.
Millet in Boston
by Dan Hofstadter
On Millet’s art.
Poems
Theater
Making something out of nothing
by Mimi Kramer
On David Rabe’s Hurlyburly.
Art
Vienna in Venice
by Ewa Kuryluk
On “Vienna in the Age of the Secession, 1885–1918” at the Palazzo Grassi.
An Australian accent?
by Eric Gibson
On new Australian painters at P.S. 1.
Books
Whoring after self-respect
by Mimi Kramer
Deprivation’s laureate
by Donald Hall
Art and mystery
by Roger Kimball
A public poet
by Robert Richman
A review of Children in Exile by James Fenton.
Notebook
William Empson: a tribute
by Cleanth Brooks
On Empson’s works.
Notes & Comments
“A certain air of seriousness”
by Bruce Bawer
On the PBS book–discussion series First Edition.