Farewell to the MLA
by Roger Kimball
On the 110th annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in San Diego, California, December 1994.
Features
Sons & husbands: D.H. Lawrence in love
by Paul Dean
On D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox.
Margaret Fuller, the American Minerva
by James Tuttleton
On recent biographies & critical studies of Fuller.
A concept of liberty: Benjamin Constant
by Renee Winegarten
Poems
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Graphic artist
by Mario Naves
On Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950–1961 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Karen Wilkin
On Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On Thomas Cole: Landscape into History at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Theater
Communism is dead; long live the King!
by Mark Steyn
On Tony Kushner’s Slavs! & Christopher Walken’s Him.
Dance
Promises, promises
by Laura Jacobs
On Bill T. Jones’s Still/Here at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Books
Gass attack
by James Wolcott
A review of The Tunnel by William H. Gass.
Not worth the powder
by Donald Lyons
A review of Witches & Jesuits: Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” by Garry Wills.
The word in English
by C.H. Sisson
A review of William Tyndale by David Daniell.
Shorter notice
by Alan Rutenberg
Of A Second Mencken Chrestomathy edited by Terry Teachout.
Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
Of Liebling at “The New Yorker” edited by James Barbour & Fred Warner.
Notebook
The Abbé & the great world
by Louis Auchincloss
On the Paris diaries of the Abbé Mugnier.
Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
A note on Charles Ives.
Notes & Comments
Victims & critics
by The Editors
On Arlene Croce’s essay Discussing the Undiscussable in The New Yorker.
Filthy is as filthy does
by The Editors
On Leon Wieseltier’s agreements & disagreements with the London Spectator.