June 1997
Attitudes toward literary excellence
On James Atlas’s farewell to serious literature & Pico Iyer’s Tropical Classical.
On James Atlas’s farewell to serious literature & Pico Iyer’s Tropical Classical.
On The New York Times’s slip on affirmative action.
Being the tenth in a series on “The future of the European past.”
On Hughes’s latest book & PBS television series, American Visions.
On The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
On the poet-critic’s life & work.
On the London scene.
On Titanic, An American Daughter & other plays.
On recent exhibitions by Oscar Bluemner, Richard Stankiewicz & others.
On the exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
On “The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection” at the Yale Center for British Art.
On “Odd Nerdrum: Paintings” at the Forum Gallery, New York.
On Wagner’s Ring at the Metropolitan Opera.
On the opening of the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia.
On recent books by Charles Wright, Michael Lind, Mary Oliver, Robert Bly, Les Murray & Edgar Bowers.
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