Feeling sorry for Rosalind Krauss
by Roger Kimball
On Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious.
Features
Why should we read Joyce Cary?
by Bruce Bawer
On the complicated heroines of Joyce Cary.
“The Greek Miracle”: Classical sculpture at the met
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar
On “The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A defense of translation
by Martin Greenberg
On The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice, by Willis Barnstone.
Poems
Art
Booked
by Jed Perl
On The American Livre de Peintre at the Grolier Club & other exhibitions of artists’ books.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Picasso & the Age of Iron” at the Guggenheim Museum.
Theater
Shelley, Shaw & Broadway
by Donald Lyons
On revivals of The Cenci & Candida & other plays.
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The strange case of Charles Valentin Alkan
by James F. Penrose
A review of Charles Valentin Alkan, edited by Brigitte François-Sappey.
The media
Pursuits of happiness
by James Bowman
On The Wall Street Journal’s “No Guardrails” editorial & other matters.
Books
The great awakener
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Jonathan Edwards by John E. Smith.
Improbable friendship
by Renee Winegarten
A vision in terry cloth
by David Klinghoffer
A review of Seaward by Brad Leithauser.
Resentful parasite
by Jeffrey Meyers
The tongue of the Welsh
by Michael Glover
A review of Collected Poems by R. S. Thomas.
Acquaintance of poets
by Robert Richman
A review of Their Ancient Glittering Eyes by Donald Hall.
Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
Of Leonard & Virginia Woolf as Publishers by J. H. Willis, Jr.
Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
Of Delmore Schwartz & James Laughlin: Selected Letters edited by Robert Phillips.
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Notes & Comments
L’Affaire Derrida
by The Editors
Marian Anderson, 1897-1993
by The Editors