A nostalgia for Molotovs: “The New York Review”
by Roger Kimball
The eighth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution”
The eighth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution”
On A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
Reflections on Proust occasioned by the publication of The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time by Phyllis Rose & How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton.
On the Library of America edition of Baldwin’s essays & early novels, edited by Toni Morrison.
Matching translations from John Frederick Nims
On Art by Yesmina Reza & other plays
On Manet, Monet & the Gare Saint-Lazare at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
On “Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay’s Series” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
On the journalistic pretense of nonpartisanship
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A review of Memoirs by Sir Georg Solti, with Harvey Sachs.
Reviews of Henry Hobson Richardson & the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology by Kenneth A. Breisch, Henry Hobson Richardson: A Genius for Architecture by Margaret Henderson Floyd & Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson by James F. O’Gorman
Review of Léon-Paul Fargue by Jean-Paul Goujon.
Notes & Comments
Democratic despotism
by The Editors
On the legal shielding of students’ records from college admissions boards
Democratic despotism, II
by The Editors
On politically correct reading lists in San Francisco schools
A ray of hope?
by The Editors
On the founding of the Historical Society