The Anselm Kiefer retrospective
by Hilton Kramer
On Anselm Kiefer’s art.
Features
Tom Wolfe’s vanities
by Joseph Epstein
On The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe.
Schoenberg and the battles of modern music
by Dana Mack
On Arnold Schoenberg and Egon Wellesz.
Yves Bonnefoy
by Joseph Frank
On Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry.
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Art
The Rosso exhibition, or, difficulty partly overcome
by Creighton Gilbert
On Rossso’s art.
From September to December
by Jed Perl
A gallery round-up.
Music
Ruminations on the romantic piano
by Samuel Lipman
On composers and performances.
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Dance
Tropical fever in midtown
by Eva Resnikova
On reconstructions of Katherine Dunham dances by the Alvin Ailey company.
Books
Hugh Kenner: a sinking oeuvre
by Bruce Bawer
A review of A Sinking Island by Hugh Kenner.
Live, from SoHo
by Deborah Solomon
A review of The Vintage Contemporary Artists Series edited by Elizabeth Avedon.
Call it irresponsible
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Shifting Landscape by Henry Roth.
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Notebook
An evening at the University of the Arts
by Theodore Prescott
On “Art: Act of Political Conscience”, a lecture by the painter Sue Coe.
The purest Hitchens
by George Szamuely
On the British political & literary journalist Christopher Hitchens.