Myths of the Fifties
by Hilton Kramer
On The Fifties by David Halberstam.
Features
Betraying a legacy: the case of the Barnes Foundation
by Roger Kimball
On an exhibition of French paintings at the National Gallery, Washington.
A great good girl: Dreiser’s “Jennie Gerhardt”
by Joseph Epstein
A retrospective on “Jennie Gerhardt.”
Honoré Daumier: public and private
by Karen Wilkin
On Daumier Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Who was Wyndham Lewis?
by Victor M. Cassidy
On the mysterious and jumbled oeuvre of Wyndham Lewis.
Poems
“Scendendo qualche volta . . .”/“At times, climbing down . . .”
by William Arrowsmith
By Eugenio Montale & translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith.
“Giunge a volte, repente . . .” / “Suddenly, at times, there comes . . .”
by William Arrowsmith
By Eugenio Montale & translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith.
Incontro / Encounter
by William Arrowsmith
By Eugenio Montale & translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith.
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Art
What there was to see
by Jed Perl
On recent exhibitions of paintings by Joan Mitchell, Paul Resika & others.
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Theater
The trouble with “Angels”
by Donald Lyons
On Angels in America, Bergman’s Peer Gynt & three one-acts by Thornton Wilder.
The media
Shadows & fog
by James Bowman
On The New York Times’s “Children of the Shadows” series & other matters.
Books
Through a glass darkly
by James Tuttleton
A review of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki.
A life of his own
by Mark Falcoff
A review of Gerald Brenan by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
To Washington by moonbeam
by Samuel Lipman
A review of Leaving Town Alive by John Frohnmayer.
Nature’s design
by Guy Davenport
Far & away
by Alan Rutenberg
A review of Loneliness & Time by Mark Cocker.
Top of the 11th, top of the order
by Richard Tillinghast
Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
Regarding Peter Singer & the letters of Delmore Schwartz.
Notes & Comments
Is art free expression?
by The Editors
On a recent panel discussion on art and free speech at MOMA.
Hegemony unmasked
by The Editors
On the MLA’s book Redrawing the Boundaries.