The perils of activism: Ken Saro-Wiwa
by Anthony Daniels
On the decrease in Nigerian writing.
Features
Willa Cather’s “The Professor’s House”
by Donald Lyons
On Cather’s now commended literary tactics.
A great, baggy monster: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
by John Simon
On verse, prose, and Reading Rilke.
The Saint-Saëns enigma
by R. J. Stove
On wavering support for the French composer.
Poems
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Theater
Stephen, Edna & the sheikh
by Mark Steyn
On Putting it Together, Dame Edna’s Royal Tour & Corpus Christi.
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Art
Rethinking modernism
by Karen Wilkin
On “Modernstarts: People, Places, Things” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition notes
by Mario Naves
On Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C..
Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Naum Gabo: Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture at PaceWildenstein, New York.
Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Milton Avery: Edge of Abstraction at Knoedler & Company, New York.
Music
Small encomia
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances by Mitsuko Uchida, Emanuel Ax & Evgeny Kissin.
Opera note
by Lawrence Johnson
On A View from the Bridge by William Bolcom at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
The media
Superior soap opera
by James Bowman
On The Sopranos.
Books
Howard’s rendering
by Martin Greenberg
Review of Richard Howard’s translation of Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma
Choreographed artifice
by Merlin James
Review of Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber
Emotional vampire
by Brooke Allen
Seeing is revealing
by Paul Dean
A review of The Bible and Its Rewritings by Piero Boitani.
Without dogma
by Paula Friedman
Review of Reputation of the Tongue by William Logan
Notes & Comments
Postscript to “sensation”
by The Editors
On Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection.
Patterns of pedagogic abuse
by The Editors
On recent scandals in public education.