The BBC & other losses
by Hilton Kramer
On the reality of the culture war in Britain and America.
Features
What’s left of Descartes?
by Roger Kimball
On the complex legacy left to modernity by René Descartes.
The “Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb”
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb.”
The other other Frost
by William Logan
On the moral confusion found in Robert Frost.
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Letters from the World
The literary stakes
by Stephen Sartarelli
Small wonder; the forgotten art of Giuseppe de Nittis
by Mario Naves
On “Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Italian Painting from the Gaetano Marzotto Collection” opened at the National Academy of Design, New York, on April 20, 1995.
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Theater
Tony or bust!
by Mark Steyn
A review of My Thing of Love , Sylvia at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and The Heiress at the Cort Theater.
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The media
Amerika revisited
by James Bowman
On the polemical response of the liberal media to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Books
Turning inward into poetry
by John Haines
A review of Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover.
The rebel George Eliot
by Alan Rutenberg
A review of George Eliot: Voice of a Century by Frederick R. Karl.
The yeoman’s tale
by Francis Morrone
A review of Olmsted’s America by Lee Hall.
Autumn Epitaph
by Thomas Mallon
Shorter notice
by John Simon
Of “General Grant” by Matthew Arnold, with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain edited by John Y. Simon.
Shorter notice
by Terry Teachout
Of Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber.
Notebook
Obedience to the unenforcable
by John Silber
On the decaying domain of manners.
Notes & Comments
Peter Brooks’s complaint
by The Editors