Features
Whittaker Chambers, man of letters
by Sam Tanenhaus
On Chambers’s literary career.
Hungering for eternity: Coleridge the poet
by Bruce Bawer
On Coleridge’s poetry.
Opera and politics
by Samuel Lipman
On a presentation at the 1990 meeting of Opera America.
Vistas of inanity: art and ideas in the Eighties
by Roger Kimball
On the exhibition “Culture & Commentary: An Eighties Perspective” at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Poems
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Art
Mixed media
by Jed Perl
On Cindy Sherman, Joan Snyder & others.
Music
Why Levine?
by Dana Mack
On James Levine, musical director of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra.
Books
Beautiful loser
by John Simon
On Franz Kafka’s life.
Shakespeare Taylor-made
by C.H. Sisson
A review of Reinventing Shakespeare by Gary Taylor.
Sympathy for the devil
by Lauren Weiner
A review of Goodnight! by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky).
St. Urbain revisited
by David Gurevich
A review of Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler.
Notes & Comments
“Can art history survive feminism?”
by The Editors
On the 1990 meeting of the College Art Association.
Musical exports
by The Editors
On the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s tour to Japan & the absence of American works on its program.