Cyril Connolly’s “Horizon”
by Hilton Kramer
On Connolly’s work.
Features
The Soviet dinosaur
by Gregory Friedin
On Soviet life.
“Baseless dreaming”: the novels of Graham Greene
by Bruce Bawer
On Graham Greene’s writing.
“An aristocrat in the public square”: José Ortega y Gasset
by Mark Falcoff
On Ortega’s career.
What is at stake in the “battle of the books”?
by Christopher Ricks
On writers and writing.
Poems
Music
Reflections on Bach
by Samuel Lipman
On performances and musical instruments.
Art behind barbed wire
by Dana Mack
On Viktor Ullmann’s satirical opera The Emperor of Atlantis.
Art
Goya: Enlightenment at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On Spanish politics and Goya’s paintings.
Comedy of styles
by Jed Perl
On Trevor Winkfield & others.
Books
Puritanism with a human face
by James Tuttleton
A review of The Puritan Ordeal by Andrew Delbanco.
In the most exalted ranks
by William C. Agee
A review of Cézanne & America by John Rewald.
Notes & Comments
The NEA after Mapplethorpe
by The Editors
The Library of America betrayed
by The Editors
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)
by The Editors