But if the artist fail?
by Samuel Lipman
On the failure of musical talent.
Features
Philip Larkin, 1922-1985
by Donald Hall
On Philip Larkin’s poetry.
“Trying to preserve something”
by Robert Richman
A tribute to Philip Larkin.
Larkin’s voice
by X.J. Kennedy
On Philip Larkin’s poems.
The career of Gaston Gallimard
by Frederick Brown
On Gaston Gallimard’s life.
The fictive music of Wallace Stevens
by Bruce Bawer
On the legacy of the poet Wallace Stevens.
Poems
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Art
Houses, fields, gardens, hills
by Jed Perl
On Catherine Murphy, Joan Snyder, Jennifer Bartlett & Esti Dunow.
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Theater
Winter journey
by Mimi Kramer
On revivals of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest & Noël Coward’s Hay Fever.
Dance
The trouble with Robbins
by David Daniel
On Jerome Robbins’s In Memory of . . . & other works.
Books
René Wellek: the theorist as historian
by James Tuttleton
A review of A History of Modern Criticism, Vol. 5 & Vol. 6.
Hopper’s scene
by James R. Mellow
A review of Hopper’s Places by Gail Levin.
Americans in Mexico
by Mark Falcoff
Novels with politics
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Atrocity & Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945 by Robert Boyers.
Notebook
The avant-garde comes to Hofstra
by Roger Kimball
On the symposium “Avant-Garde Art & Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism”.