“The Intellectuals & the Masses”
by Hilton Kramer
A review of The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey.
Features
Going no place with Peter Blake
by Roger Kimball
A review of No Place Like Utopia by Peter Blake
C. P. Cavafy, a poet in history
by Joseph Epstein
On the idiosyncratic life and poetry of Cavafy.
The eloquent whispers of Giorgio Morandi
by Karen Wilkin
On the opening of the Museo Morandi in Bologna.
Seneca & the idea of lyric tragedy
by Dana Gioia
On the darkness in Seneca’s plays.
Poems
Lycus proposes marriage
by Dana Gioia
A scene from Seneca’s “Hercules Furens” adapted by Dana Gioia.
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Music
Lincoln Center’s chamber music problems
by Samuel Lipman
On the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at 25.
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Theater
Abes & angels
by Donald Lyons
On the revival of Robert E. Sherwood’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Tony Kusher’s Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika & other plays.
The media
Feeling sentimental
by James Bowman
On the New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen & other matters.
Books
A talent to delight: Nancy Mitford in her letters
by Brooke Allen
A review of Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley.
A prodigy of parody
by John Gross
Text’s jest-book
by John Simon
A review of Beckett’s Dying Words by Christopher Ricks.
Lives of the artists
by Eric Gibson
A review of Elaine & Bill by Lee Hall & Mark Rothko by James E.B. Breslin.
Does God have a future?
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong.
Shorter notice
by Alan Rutenberg
Of The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch.
Shorter notice
by Mark Falcoff
Of The Man Who Wasn’t Maigretby Patrick Marnham.
Shorter notice
by Jeremy Murray-Brown
Of The Cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell.
Notes & Comments
“Word work” in Stockholm
by The Editors