How not to write about art
by Roger Kimball
On The Turning Point by April Kingsley.
Features
Maurice Baring & the good high-brow
by Joseph Epstein
On the whimsy and kindness of Maurice Baring.
A footnote to Yalta
by Jeremy Murray-Brown
On Russian repatriation, and the human costs captured in video.
From the Tiger’s claw
by Kathleen McCann
On the Romantic in painting.
Sex, the Sixties & Camille Paglia
by Donald Lyons
On Paglia’s collection and the idolization of the 1960s.
Poems
Art
The distance of Mantegna
by Creighton Gilbert
On “Andrea Mantegna” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Curators & Indians
by Jed Perl
On “Art of the American Indian Frontier” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Books
Art after Warhol
by Karen Wilkin
A review of Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto.
Spaced out
by Robert Richman
On the poetry of Les Murray.
Panpipes & preppies
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
Books into life
by Guy Davenport
A review of The Double Life of Stephen Crane by Christopher Benfey.
Beyond the bandstand
by Richard Brookhiser
A review of Stuart Feder’s biography of Charles Ives.
The song of the bow
by John Herington
A review of The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney.
Shorter notice
by Sam Tanenhaus
Of James D. Bloom’s Left Letters.
Shorter notice
by Tess Lewis
Of Norman Manea’s On Clowns & October, Eight O’Clock.
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Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
On Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
Notes & Comments
The Dutch bid a tearful farewell to art welfare
by The Editors
John Cage, 1912-1992
by The Editors