Experiments against reality
by Roger Kimball
Being the tenth in a series on “The future of the European past”
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Robert Hughes’s Amerika
by Michael J. Lewis
On Hughes’s latest book & PBS television series, American Visions
Edward Gibbon & the Enlightenment
by Keith Windschuttle
On The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
The seriousness of Yvor Winters
by David Yezzi
On the poet-critic’s life & work
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Letters to the Editor
Backbenchers & youthquakers
by Mordecai Richler
On the London scene
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Theater
Airbrushed imperfections
by Mark Steyn
On Titanic, An American Daughter & other plays
Art
Promising signs
by Mario Naves
On recent exhibitions by Oscar Bluemner, Richard Stankiewicz & others
Discovering Lovis Corinth
by Karen Wilkin
On the exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
Odd Nerdrum: Paintings at the Forum Gallery, New York
out of interstitials
Music
Master of decadence
by James F. Penrose
On Wagner’s Ring at the Metropolitan Opera
out of interstitials
The media
Pictures from the “Newseum”
by James Bowman
On the opening of the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia
out of interstitials
Verse chronicle
Hardscrabble country
by William Logan
On recent books by Charles Wright, Michael Lind, Mary Oliver, Robert Bly, Les Murray & Edgar Bowers
Books
The Gospel of Norman
by Brooke Allen
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
An expert noticer
by James Tuttleton
Review of The Actual by Saul Bellow
From ancient grudge
by Arthur Waldron
On The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War edited by Robert B. Strassler.
North by northeast
by Peter Schwendener
Review of The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser
Notes & Comments
Attitudes toward literary excellence
by The Editors
On James Atlas’s farewell to serious literature & Pico Iyer’s Tropical Classical
Outing the truth at the “Times”
by The Editors
On The New York Times’s slip on affirmative action