Writing the history of the New York intellectuals
by Hilton Kramer
On Prodigal Sons by Alexander Bloom.
Features
Putting the Sixties to bed
by Jed Perl
On Definitive Statements, an exhibition of American art 1964-66 at Brown University.
Hare, tortoise, umpire
by Dan Hofstadter
On François Boucher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Debating the humanities at Yale
by Roger Kimball
On the symposium “The Humanities & the Public Interest.”
Naum Gabo at the Guggenheim
by Eric Gibson
On Naum Gabo’s oeuvre.
Poems
Art
American art between the wars
by William C. Agee
On “Order and Enigma: American Art Between the Two Wars” at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo.
Versions of pastoral
by Jed Perl
On John Heliker, Richard Tobias, Anthony Caro and others.
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Theater
Who has seen Christina Rossetti?
by Mimi Kramer
On the musical Goblin Market.
Books
Chaplin disinterred
by Vernon Young
A review of Chaplin: His Life & Art by David Robinson.
Lukács before Marx
by René Wellek
A review of The Young Lukács by Lee Congdon & Georg Lukács and His Generation 1900-1918 by Mary Gluck.
Propertius, our contemporary
by James Gardner
A review of Propertius: The Poems translated from the Latin by W. G. Shepherd.
Fiction chronicle
True Confessions
by Bruce Bawer
On The Good Mother by Sue Miller & other recent American works.
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Notebook
Portrait of the artist as Strether
by Louis Auchincloss
On Fiction and the Figures of Life by William Gass.