Picasso: portraits or masks?
by Hilton Kramer
On “Picasso & Portraiture: Representation & Transformation” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Art
Jan Steen in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
On “Jan Steen: Painter & Storyteller” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Glackens, Sloan & friends: the Ashcan artists’ New York
by Mario Naves
At the New-York Historical Society
The media
Blandness & objectivity
by James Bowman
On “fairness” & “objectivity” in the media
Verse chronicle
Gravel on the tongue
by William Logan
On recent books of poems by W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Mark Doty, Louise Glück & Seamus Heaney
Books
The rehabilitation of Robert Frost
by James Tuttleton
Apologia pro Newman
by Paul Dean
A review of The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman, edited by Frank M. Turner.
Krazy Kat culture
by Mark Steyn
A review of The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes & the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States by Michael Kammen.
Cadences of Aran
by Richard Tillinghast
Review of John Millington Synge: A Biography by David M. Kiely
Of caliphs & sultans
by Alain Silvera
Review of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last Two Thousand Years by Bernard Lewis
Miss Rat & the artists
by David Yezzi
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by Donald Lyons
A review of Horace in English edited by D. S. Carne-Ross & Kenneth Haynes.
Notes & Comments
Professor Sokal’s Transgression
by The Editors
On Alan Sokal’s hoax in Social Text & the responses to it by Andrew Ross & Stanley Fish