Rewriting the history of American literature
by James Tuttleton
On the work of Lawrence Buell & Sacvan Bercovitch.
Features
A peculiarly dark utopian: H. G. Wells
by Brad Leithauser
On the flawed utopian dreams of a visionary author.
Art & architecture at the Equitable Center
by Roger Kimball
On Edward Larrabee Barnes’s New York buildings.
The mystery of Theodore Dreiser
by Joseph Epstein
On the flawed genius and suspect politics of the American writer.
Poems
Music
The Met’s failed Walküre
by Samuel Lipman
On the Metropolitan Opera’s performance.
Art
The sketchbooks of Picasso
by Jed Perl
On “Je suis le cahier” at the Pace Gallery, New York.
Little bronzes from Vienna
by Creighton Gilbert
On Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Fiction chronicle
All in the family
by Bruce Bawer
On The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt, The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich & other recent American fiction.
Books
Doomed poet
by David Paul
Benjamin’s Moscow
by René Wellek
A review of Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin.
The “monster” myth
by Robert Richman
A review of Robert Frost Himself by Stanley Burnshaw.