The new women’s museum
by Hilton Kramer
On the new National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington.
Features
James Huneker & America’s musical coming of age
by Samuel Lipman
On James Huneker’s life and legacy.
George Santayana and the consolations of philosophy
by Joseph Epstein
On George Santayana’s life and philosophy.
Paul Klee now
by Jed Perl
On “Paul Klee” at the Museum of Modern Art.
Poems
Words over Amos
by Donald Hall
Waking the next morning
by Donald Hall
Trouble
by Louis Simpson
At the graves in memory
by Gibbons Ruark
Wayside flowers on the Hazel Brae
by Gibbons Ruark
Planting bulbs in September
by Florence Grossman
A voice outside
by David Paul
Montana cat
by David Paul
What have you done with your life?
by David Paul
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Dance
Ground control
by Eva Resnikova
On the choreography of Laura Dean.
Television
A “guide” to popular culture?
by Martha Bayles
A review of Watching Television by Todd Gitlin.
Art
Esteban Vicente at eighty-four
by Elizabeth Frank
On the painter Esteban Vicente.
Jasper’s seasons
by Jed Perl
On Jasper Johns’s “The Seasons.”
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Theater
Danger and misery on Broadway
by Fernanda Eberstadt
On the stage adaptations of Les Misérables and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Books
Literary free play at Rutgers
by James Tuttleton
A review of The Renewal of Literature by Richard Poirier .
Isn’t it romantic
by Donna Rifkind
Warming up for poetry
by James Atlas
On Robert Lowell’s Collected Prose.
Tinsel talk
by Bruce Bawer
Notebook
Professor Kuspit comes to rural Pennsylvania
by Theodore Prescott
On Donald Kuspit’s lectures.