Poems
Features
Thinking about “The Forties”
by Hilton Kramer
On The Art of the Forties at MOMA.
Academic psychobabble, or Richard Sennett goes to town
by Roger Kimball
On Sennett’s The Conscience of the Eye: The Design & Social Life of Cities.
Desmond MacCarthy’s familiar criticism
by Joseph Epstein
Catching up to the past: Popova at MOMA
by Deborah Rosenthal
Alexandre Dumas: fact and fiction
by Renee Winegarten
Icelandic almanac
by Mary Jo Salter
Lullaby for a daughter
by Mary Jo Salter
Most popular
Theater
Henry IV; monologists III
by Donald Lyons
On Shakespeare’s play at the Public Theater & three one-woman shows on Broadway.
Art
Tradition-conscious
by Jed Perl
On Melissa Meyer, William Bailey, Philip Pearlstein & others.
Books
Life, chance, and Charles Darwin
by Guy Davenport
A review of Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby.
Russian classics
by Vasily Rudich
Capacities for invention
by Julian Symons
Love on the couch
by Jenny Teichman
A review of Love & Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear.
The Polish particulars
by Richard Lourie
A review of Breathing under Water & Other East European Essays by Stanislaw Baranczak.
Shorter notice
by Walter Tracy
Of Frederic Goudy by D. J. R. Bruckner.
Shorter notice
by Roger Kimball
Of The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross.
Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
Of Author & Agent: Eudora Welty & Diarmuid Russell by Michael Kreyling.
Notes & Comments
The outlook for the Barnes Foundation
by The Editors
Hate speech at Columbia
by The Editors
On Hate Speech, Sexual Harassment & Academic Freedom, a speech by Mari J. Matsuda at Columbia University.