The assault on the museums
by Hilton Kramer
On special-interest demands on curatorship.
Features
The disaffected populist: Christopher Lasch on progress
by Roger Kimball
On Lasch’s The True and Only Heaven.
Barnett Newman’s big ideas
by Deborah Solomon
Q.D.L.
by Donald Lyons
On the literary criticism of Q. D. Leavis.
The art of Ford Madox Ford
by Bruce Bawer
On Ford Madox Ford’s writing.
The young Old Master: Van Dyck in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
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Theater
Backstage with Odets
by Donald Lyons
On the Roundabout Theater Company revival of The Country Girl.
Books
Dostoevsky’s idiom
by Vasily Rudich
A review of the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation of The Brothers Karamazov.
The historian’s craft
by Mark Falcoff
A review of Marc Bloch: A Life in History by Carole Fink.
After Diaghilev
by Moira Hodgson
Shorter notice
by Robert Richman
Of Journals by Herman Melville.
Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
Of Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn by Jonathan Cott.
Notebook
For Mozart, poor Mozart
by Dana Mack
On the Mozart bicentennial in Vienna.
Notes & Comments
“Practicing social change”
by The Editors
On the appointment of the feminist Gayatri Spivak to the English faculty of Columbia University.
Exit MASS MOCA
by The Editors