The politics of delegitimation
by Roger Kimball
The seventh in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution”
Features
Léger’s modernism
by Hilton Kramer
On Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Dr. Donne & Sir Edmund Gosse
by Jeremy Bernstein
On exploring the meeting of two dissimilar men.
Balanchine’s castle
by Laura Jacobs
On Jewels at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
Poems
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Theater
“Capeman crusaders”
by Mark Steyn
On The Capeman by Paul Simon & Derek Wolcott
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Art
Frankenthaler at the Guggenheim
by Karen Wilkin
On “After Mountains & Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Levelheaded mysticism: Arthur Dove at the Whitney
by Mario Naves
The media
Down on Clinton
by James Bowman
On the press coverage of recent presidential scandals
Books
Prague of a hundred towers
by Eric Ormsby
A review of Prague in Black & Gold by Peter Demetz.
Synthetic grit
by James Wolcott
Review of Night Train by Martin Amis
Apollonius now
by Louis Galdieri
A review of the Argonautika translated & with an introduction, commentary & glossary by Peter Green.
Little Kazin & big God
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of God & the American Writer by Alfred Kazin.
Notes & Comments
Stanford’s stairways to nowhere
by The Editors
On Stanford’s new Presidential Lectures & Symposia in the Humanities & Arts
The decline of “Civilization”
by The Editors
On guest editors at the magazine of the Library of Congress
Correction
by The Editors
On Philippe de Montebello’s position at the Met