Art & its institutions: notes on the culture war
by Hilton Kramer
On the M.I.T. symposium “The Public Patron: Drafting a Mandate for a Federal Arts Agency” & related matters.
Features
James Q. Wilson on the moral sense
by Roger Kimball
On Mr. Wilson’s book The Moral Sense.
Who’s killing our symphony orchestras?
by Samuel Lipman
On the American Symphony Orchestra League report Americanizing the American Orchestra.
An amateur’s love of the English: Lampedusa’s “Letteratura inglese”
by Stephen Sartarelli
Translated with an introduction by Stephen Sartarelli.
G.B.S.: the life of George Bernard Shaw
by Brooke Allen
On Michael Holroyd’s biography.
Returning to the Founders: the debate on the Constitution
by Harvey Mansfield
On The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, edited by Bernard Bailyn.
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Poems
Art
Mostly Marden
by Jed Perl
On Brice Marden, William Plevin-Foust & Mark di Suvero.
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On “Fairfield Porter: An American Painter” at the Parrish Art Museum.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Jean Dubuffet, 1943-1963” at the Hirshorn Museum.
Theater
Summer fare
by Donald Lyons
On Jane Bowles’s In the Summer House & other plays.
The media
The use & abuse of violence
by James Bowman
On television violence.
Books
Robed in images: the memoirs of James Merrill
by John Simon
On creativity
State of the essay?
by Richard Brookhiser
A review of United States by Gore Vidal..
“Just let me put this bastard on the skids”
by Christopher Carduff
Priapic polymath
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of The Sixties by Edmund Wilson.
Priapic polymath
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of The Sixties by Edmund Wilson.
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Notebook
Another sun person heard from
by Terry Teachout
On Black Studies, Rap & the Academy by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Notes & Comments
Why waste time on kooks?
by The Editors
On Deborah Lipstadt’s book Denying the Holocaust.
Perfect justice
by The Editors
On the appointment of Dennis Barrie to the directorship of the Rock-&-Roll Hall of Fame.